Mining Movies

Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile...

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

Heavily dependent on imports, Europe is seeking to develop its production of lithium, an element that is essential to the energy transition. Focus on...

Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold...

An industrial documentary commissioned by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, this film chronicles the engineering and mining operations at...

Warwick company newsreel material of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd on fire after an explosion on 14th October 1913, and footage of a funeral...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a...

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

A new uranium mill -- the first in the U.S. in 30 years -- would re-connect the economically devastated rural mining community of Naturita, Colorado,...

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

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...

Love triangle in Chile

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...

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...