The Miners' Film

The miners' strikes, struggles and way of life are celebrated as the vital part of Britain's trade union movement.

Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo

Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 mi

Miners

In the constant and cruel struggle of man to master nature, he will begin by destroying his greatest ally. An authentic story about a lesser-known profession that begins where the asphalt ends. In a mountainous setting,

Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis

The location of Hunan's southwestern Hunan, the local economy is not active, the people either go out to work or go up the mountain to mine. Due to the constant mining disasters, despite the government's efforts to recti

Miners

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space by Jiang Yue.

Heroes with No Name: Coal Miners in Ruifang

Situated in the hills leading down to the coast, Ruifang used to pride itself on its coal mining industry. Every morning, miners from surrounding neighbourhoods gathered here to put on their gears and got into the mineca

Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara

The Coal Miners

The Pasha mocks the farmers and workers of his estate, who suffer from his greed and are incited against him by Amin, who lives in the coal-burning district. Later, Amin's father is killed by unknown persons. At the same

Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac

From a central pivotal position, the camera eye (in this case, the hard and inflexible eye of Minerva) looks out upon twelve passing scenes. None of the scenes are necessarily associated with specific signs of the Zodiac

The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes: Straight Speaking - The Strike and the Industry

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

El Minero

Every Day is Night

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in photographs. When he discovered how strongly they reacted to his pictures, he decided to make a film. Black-and-white phot

Pasaporte Pampliega: Coltán, mineral de sangre

The Miners Strike

Documentary which captures the extraordinary passions unleashed by the 1984 miners' strike and examines how it changed Britain forever. Mining villages were consumed by violence and hatred as pickets fought running battl

The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes: Only Doing Their Job? The Police and the Miners

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

Miners' Stories

Victor and Oleksandr live in the mining towns of two geographically remote regions of Ukraine. While their lives and the lives of their relatives revolve around mines, there is another side. Who they really are? What mak

The Mineral Dreams

The average age of an ordinary stone is about two billion years. Even if a person sits with the stone for a whole day, it will be just one trillionth of its life. This poetic and beautifully shot film attempts to look at

Lithium: Rising The Race for Critical Minerals

As green technologies continue to be developed at increasing rates, old paradigms of extraction and exploitation of the Global South are being reimagined for a new era. Lithium Rising illuminates the troubling dirty unde

Rocks and Minerals: How We Identify Them

Shows how common rocks and minerals can be identified by color, texture, hardness, streak and other standard procedures.

MINERAL

Experimental film by Katsumi Aoi.