Mining Movies

Filmed over five years across the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert and the fertile valleys of Serbia’s Jadar, ALL WE HAVE IS US...

A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and copper deposits. As commercial mining interests...

A gigantic investment project brings assistant Frank Schröder back to his home, the border triangle. Torn between appropriation,...

In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets...

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and...

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák...

From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent...

A documentary about the remaining people in Malmberget in north Sweden, a small town collapsing into the mines beneath it. As residents reflect on...

Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step...

Diamantes, short produced by the ULA, registered the birth of a new town: San Salvador de Paul, the arrival of new residents, farmers who ventured in...

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

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the...

From the creators of Haunted Discoveries, Ghosts of the Gold Rush explores California’s darkest Gold Rush legends, from Hangtown’s...

A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of...

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche...

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners....

A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled...

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's...