Coal Movies

1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

Animated film based on the comic strip "Jerry on the Job" - a man on the station platform tells Jerry Flannigan and Mr. Givney that he knows how to...

Thirteen static shots of coal-fired power stations across the United States, seen in rural landscapes, urban settings, sun or cloud and at all times...

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber and based upon the short story by Sid Chaplin. Narrated by north east broadcaster Mike Neville the film...

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok...

A Documentary on the railways and their role in supporting the United States