Coal Mine Movies

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the...

Deep underground, the coal miner Mattheus and his young assistant Maël make a mystical discovery. As Mattheus dreams of a life above the ground,...

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

The Toilers (1928)

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.