A cidade de Butcher Hollow, no Kentucky, tem na exploração das minas de carvão sua única atividade econômica. Lá nasceu Loretta (Sissy Spacek), uma dos 8 filhos de Ted Webb (Levon Helm), um mineiro que criou sua família, apesar de ser bem pobre. Quando tinha apenas 13 anos Loretta se casou com Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones). Com 20 anos ela já tinha 4 filhos e tudo indicava que seria uma dona de casa pelo resto da vida. Nesta época ela começou a cantar ocasionalmente para sua família. Seu dom começou a ser notado por Doolittle, que a presenteou com um violão. Com o estímulo do marido, ela grava um disco independente e os dois fazem de tudo para que o disco seja divulgado. Aos poucos Loretta se torna conhecida no mundo da música country, o que faz com que se torne amiga de Patsy Cline (Beverly D'Angelo), que era na época a maior estrela da country music. Mas junto com o sucesso também vieram diversas apresentações, que deixavam Loretta cada vez mais esgotada física e psiquicamente.
Ambientado em 1941, numa França Steampunk que parou no Século 19, repleta de máquinas a vapor, duas torres Eiffel e governada por Napoleão VI, os cientistas desaparecem misteriosamente. Uma garota chamada Avril (Marion Cotillard), vai em busca de seus pais cientistas desaparecidos.
Lil trabalha para a Legendre Company e faz com que Bill, seu chefe, divorcie-se de sua mulher Irene e case-se com ela, forçando a sociedade a prestar atenção nela.
ArrQuando vai fazer uma viagem para visitar seu avô, a pequena Lily (Mara Wilson) acidentalmente embarca no trem . Para sua surpresa, o trem ruma para Shinning Time, uma lugar mágico onde ela conhece o maquinista do trem (Alec Baldwin). Juntos, eles viajam pela Estrada de Ferro Mágica até a ilha de Sodor, onde conhecem Thomas, o pequeno trem a vapor azul.
A vida dos gangsters mais poderosos de Calcutá - Bikram e Bala, muda quando Nandita entra nela. Então uma força contrária assume o controle e um thriller se desenrola.
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it on her own. But the worsening steel industry forces major cutbacks and June is bumped down to an all-male pit. She becomes the brunt of the other workers' hostilities and is forced to fight against them -- and the man she loves -- to save her job.
Veja as questões urgentes do legado e as perspectivas futuras sobre o carvão, incluindo a saúde humana, a revitalização econômica, a poluição, as mudanças climáticas e a revolução da energia limpa.
Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.
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 run a train without coal.
Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.
This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.
Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.
Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.
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 tells the story of Geordie, a miner, and his love for his pigeons and the trials and tribulations of his passion which is very popular around the region. The face of Sid Chaplin is used as Geordie.