W wieku trzynastu lat, Loretta Webb poślubia Mooney'a Lynna, tworząc dużą rodzinę. Loretta zajmuje się prowadzeniem domu, lecz jej mąż rozpoznaje w niej wielki muzyczny talent. Na rocznicę ślubu kupuje jej gitarę. Ten podarunek rozpoczyna wielką karierę Loretty jako piosenkarki muzyki 'country'.
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
Hrabstwo Mingo, Zachodnia Virginia, rok 1920. Grupa górników, nie mogąca stworzyć związku zawodowego, musi stawić czoło właścicielom kompanii oraz pewnym bandytom. Czarni oraz włoscy górnicy, sprowadzeni przez kompanię jako łamistrajki, są między dwoma stronami konfliktu. Działacz związkowy, Joe Kenehan, wysłany do założenia związku, próbuje zjednoczyć lokalnych górników, czarnoskórych oraz Włochów. Film oparty na prawdziwych wydarzeniach.
Dziewięciu mężczyzn walczy pod ziemią o przetrwanie po wybuchu metanu. Zostało im niewiele czasu...
Zaginął młody chłopak, który opiekował się owcami na zboczu wzgórza w północnych Chinach. Jego niemy ojciec próbuje go odnaleźć za wszelką cenę.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply.
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community's way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced resettlement, the leader Jairo Fuentes negotiates with the mine's operators, which soon becomes a fight to survive.
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley’s most personal work, SHENANDOAH creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community, and the American Dream on trial.