Movies: Mining

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues Greece. The Greek state has ceded its mining rights over 31.700 ha of land in northern Halkidiki, a region ric...

Stop motion short film against open pit mining....

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, to its proud history supplying the material for the first atomic bomb. Some view it as a greener ene...

Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile ecosystem in one of the driest parts of the globe. This « political cowboy flick» follows the pitched ...

The documentary registers the reaction of the inhabitant the communities of Imbabura, Zamora, Chinchipe and others Ecuadorian provinces under the influence of mining. The testimonies of the leaders and the protagonists tell the facts that are at the ...

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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 welcomes him into his home. While he is away registering his claim, another prospector, Mike O'Hara, comes ...

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

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

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 traveling to the same place. He is kidnapped by some men who are misdirecting the mine shipments, and escape...

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham....

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry....

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining....

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

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Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit....

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

A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler....

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen....

Short documentary about mining in east germany....