Movies and TvShows featuring "black-lung-disease" theme.

Harlan County U.S.A. is a powerful documentary that chronicles the intense and violent struggle of a coal miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. The film captures the hardships faced by the striking miners and the relentless efforts of the United Mine Workers Association to protect their rights.

Harlan County War is a movie set in the 1970s in Harlan County, Kentucky, where a group of miners go on a sit-down strike to fight for better working conditions. The movie explores the social and family dynamics within the mining community, the dangers of coal mining, and the violent clashes between the mining company and the workers. It also sheds light on the poverty and struggles faced by the miners and the significance of labor organizing during that time.

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.

Set in 1975, Tony Andretti (Jeff Schultz) is an aimless young Ontario man who earns a dangerous living running pot from Pittsburgh to the Canadian border. Rosa Andretti (Viveca Lindfors) is his tough and determined grandmother who neither trusts nor likes her grandson very much. The unlikely duo are forced to hit the road together. Tony, on the run from a bungled drug drop, and Rosa, attempting to get compensation money for her husband's death from black lung disease. The road leads them through heartache, despair and eventually to understanding...