Burning Coal
In 1994, an economist decision by British Coal to close "Tower Colliery" in Aberdare (South Wales), convinced its miners boasting a generationally long history of political activism, that what they had was worth fighting
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In 1994, an economist decision by British Coal to close "Tower Colliery" in Aberdare (South Wales), convinced its miners boasting a generationally long history of political activism, that what they had was worth fighting
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Inspired from an old 5 yuan billet, the mysterious destiny of a mining town in the north-east of China
A thick black cloud of exhaust rises up as an offering.
On Coal River takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his
Glimpses of everyday life in 1970s Nottingham form the backdrop to this film about local refuse being converted into heating for new homes.
We continue our journey east across BNSF's North Dakota former Northern Pacific main line in to the prairies of the Jamestown Sub. Traffic is mostly coal loads and empties to and from the Powder River coal basin, led by
In the countryside of yesteryear, in the mines and factories, these men of the past seem to share the same sorrows. Something seems to resonate within us today, perhaps it's just an illusion, or perhaps it's simply the h
This is an underdog love story. Diana and Ted's journey provides a cinematic immersion into the magic (and misfortunes) of Canada's hottest theatre. Shot over a four-year span with unprecedented access, we intimately go
A vibrant super 8mm portrait of two elderly brothers and the hyperlocal world they live in.
Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal, owned by Manoel de Oliveira's father.
“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded.”
Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little la
Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.
Trainees are busy learning "a career rather than a job" at the world's first Mines Mechanisation Training Centre in Sheffield.
Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".
A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old superstition rooted in a folk tale that for 80 years forbid all women from
An ethnographic portrait of one stigmatised woman coal miner, in the village of Kante, in Tajikistan.