Mining Movies

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three vi...

A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is travelin...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

A short documentary following a daring band of unlikely explorers embarking on a quest to uncover the forgotten mines of Cornwall, only to unearth an...

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker N...

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

Stop motion short film against open pit mining.

Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the Alaskan wilderness - where the people of Bristol Bay...

Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that ne...

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white...

Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men esc...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises th...

In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists and...