Movies: Mining

To see snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese girl Trúc Lâm (Nano Nguyen) moves to a small town in the middle of the Erzgebirge mountains in Saxony. She is fascinated by the forest, the mountains and the clear air that smells of clouds and winte...

"Dayas", a term referring to the process of gold extraction from the ore, is a short film that aims to showcase the Igorot culture and local talents. It focuses on the lives of two Igorot small-scale gold miners in Itogon, Benguet named Hacob and Ban...

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white South African property owner who exploits the resources of land and black human labour which are un...

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste covered 25,000 acres, devastating Quapaw tribal lands and local economies. Acid mine water burned nea...

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1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town....

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A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights....

Documentary on the lives and hopes of the people living in Arlit, Niger and working in its uranium mine....

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The Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the path of what will be the earths largest coal mines. One woman, Paola Cassoni, decides to resist the "China First" project that will destroy her Nature Refuge and supply energy to Asia for the next thirty years....

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining....

In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in West Germany in fourth place. Bischofferöder Kalisalz is of a special quality and the plant therefore h...

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"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry....

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy....

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