Mining Movies

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

The friends Curió, Boroca (Dedé Santana), Mexelete and Bateia they venture in search of gold in the mine of Serra Pelada. The area is...

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

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of...

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and...

Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about...

Mark Reid, a young prospector, discovers gold in the Sierra foothills. He meets an old man known as "The Good Samaritan," who counsels him and...

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

A Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a Chilean desert town.

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...

In Nova Lima, gold arrived before the city itself. Fragments of past and future intertwine in the present of this story that begins in 1834 and shows...

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...

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout...

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

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...