Movies and TvShows featuring "miners" theme.
A former Army sergeant returns home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet...
In a small town, a former FBI agent uncovers a conspiracy involving a crooked businessman and an addictive goo that mutates people. As the goo becomes more popular, it threatens to consume the entire town. With the help of a scientist and a boy, the ex-agent must stop the spread of the goo before it's too late.
An exciting story of Husine coalminers who formed a partisan batch and put up an armed resistance during WW2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In this movie, Adam Strange, a disheveled man with teleportation powers, becomes an unlikely hero as he saves lives in a space mining colony. He uses his jetpack and mathematical formulas to fight against a horde of spider-monsters and protect a mining town. Along the way, he confronts his own grief and battles a mean drunk in a bar fight.
In a near future, mankind has moved from a drained Earth to the Moon. Rebel acts of terrorism lead to conflicts with the Earth Federal Government. A mysterious entity called Dallos appears to restore hope.
Angels of the Sun is a movie based on a true story about a 13-year-old girl who is sold into prostitution in the Amazon jungle. The movie explores themes of childhood poverty, abuse, betrayal, and the struggle for survival. It depicts the harsh realities of the sex trafficking industry and the trauma experienced by the young girl. Through her journey, the movie also sheds light on the poverty and social issues faced by the people living in the jungle.
A gripping documentary that explores the tumultuous journey of Romania over the past 30 years, focusing on the riots, poverty, political scandals, and corruption that have shaped the nation. From the Romanian Revolution to regime change, the film delves into the dark underbelly of Romanian politics, unearthing stories of profiteering, media manipulation, and international relations.
Since the days of Apartheid, Main Reef Road has linked Johannesburg, its suburbs, and the outlying villages and gold mines of the region. Now the people of means flee the more remote reaches of the Road for the suburbs. Who remains along this once heavily travelled highway? Who slaves for the mining companies today? Filmmaker Nic Hofmeyr takes to the road to meet them. South Africa's history echoes in their stories, and in the very landscape.
In a small town, a mining accident leaves a 15-year-old boy dead and one miner missing. As investigations unfold, the lives of the town's residents are exposed, including extramarital affairs, marital problems, and family relationships. The tragedy brings out buried emotions, leading to a fight for justice and revealing the dark secrets hidden within the community.
A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid of the American Legion.
Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.
The story of a mine and the men who work it, particularly one miner, who has problems both at work and at home.
Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the 1984/85 minders strike. Like the forthcoming movie, Pride, it documents the interactions between lesbians and gay men and the miners and their families in Dulais in South Wales - only this time it's the real thing. As well as some memorable footage that includes the Blaenant Lodge banner leading the 1985 Lesbian and Gay Pride march and LGSM members struggling with bingo at the local community hall, the film documents the wider political impact of this seemingly unlikely alliance. (cont. http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2014/dancing-in-dulais#sthash.HScQCj7E.dpuf)
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
In 1870 in the old west two women bought by miners as wives pursue their independence as survival endures over morality.
After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.
Wolfram, a Saliva do Lobo is a documentary film that explores the lives of miners in the remote Wolfram village. It delves into the challenges they face and offers an ethnographical perspective on their daily struggles.
An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual Jubilee, a wild 4th of July celebration where families and neighbors let loose and triumph over daily hardships, industrial abandonment, and race.