Movies and TvShows featuring "mining-disaster" 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.

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.

An Injury to One is a documentary that investigates the murder of a trade union agitator in a mining town in Butte, Montana during the early 1900s. The film explores the connection between the murder, war profiteering, capitalism, and the devastating impact of the mining industry on the environment and workers' lives. It also delves into the history of labor unions, the International Workers of the World, and the discriminatory actions taken against labor activists during the McCarthy era.