Coal Mine Movies

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia revealed a treasure trove of fossils from animals that lived ten million years after the KT...

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

The Toilers (1928)

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds...

“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006....

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.