A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
För tio år sedan skedde en tragedi i gruvsamfundet Harmony. En oerfaren kolgruvarbetare orsakar en olycka i en tunnel som dödar fem män. En man överlever, Harry Warden, men han hamnar i permanent koma. Ett år efter olyckan, på Valentine’s Day, vaknar Harry Warden och mördar brutalt 22 människor med en hacka som hämnd för hans egen död. Efter många fredliga år kommer ondskan från Harmonys mörka tid tillbaka. Med en gruvarbetares mask och utrustad med hacka är en ostoppbar mördare lös. Och allteftersom ljudet av huggande kommer närmare inser lokalbefolkningen med skräck att Harry Warden har kommit tillbaka för att ta dem…
Sextioåriga Huw Morgan tittar tillbaka på sitt liv som pojke i en liten gruvstad i Wales. Hans hågkomster visar hur den tätt sammansvetsade familjen Morgan skingras, samtidigt som filmen fångar tidens känslor och stora frågor. Denna erkända filmklassiker är en berättelse om en familjs drömmar, svårigheter och triumfer.
Frank är ett råskinn, driven av primitiva och spontana insikter. Från gruvans undanskymda mörker stiger han mot rugbyvärldens stjärnhimmel, med ett bultande begär att bli älskad och behövd. I sällskap med en måttlös lidelse närmar han sig den vackra änkan Margaret i ett desperat försök att väcka henne till befrielse ur sin självömkan och känsloisolering. Men hans tillvägagångssätt är lika hårdhänta som på rugbyplanen, vilket leder till en ödestiger duell mellan ett obesvarat behov av närhet och ett förbittrat avståndstagande.
Pennsylvania, 1876. De irländska gruvarbetarna är inte nöjda med sina arbetsvillkor och genomför olika protester. När främlingen James McKenna anländer behandlas han inledningsvis med misstänksamhet av gruvarbetarna. McKenna är dock inte den han utger sig för att vara och snart kommer rättvisan ikapp de bångstyriga arbetarna.
A young man by the name of Atif Kurtovic goes into a mine for the first time in his life to become a miner and to continue exactly where his now retired grandfather had left off. However, his fate is soon completely changed when he is picked as the face for the most valuable banknote in the country, the bill in the amount of one thousand dinars. Because of this, Atif soon finds himself on his way to Belgrade where Tito's personal photographer takes his picture and thus allows Atif to become a part of history. Into this story enters a young girl whose nickname, "Hiljadarka / A Thousand", is no accident and with whom Atif falls in love. When Tito announces his personal visit to Atif's hometown, there begins an adventure that they will all remember for the rest of their lives.
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.
The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.
A moving comedy-drama about the love, identity and courage of the LGBTQ community during the first walk towards Gay Pride in 1950s England. Based on the real-life events of Yorkshire coal miners and secret gay lovers, Tommy and Eddy, who spend their annual week holiday at a quirky B & B in Blackpool, along with a few other alternative members of society – the transgender Mr. Elbridge, the ex-show girl Red Ethel and the eccentric owner Gladys and her flirty daughter Maureen.
“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006. A miner was trapped underground, and by the fourth day when everyone was beginning to lose hope of his safe return, the rescue team heard a faint knocking on the pipeline. After a nearly a week long search, the miner was rescued. Those who followed the story closely called it a miracle. But the miner claimed that what saved him was stronger than a miracle – his love for his daughter Laura, and his wife Marlena.
Alan Bleasdale’s television debut, this beautifully observed drama stars Alison Steadman as a woman having a passionate tryst with the boy next door while her husband is at work.
Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.
The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, who knows the secrets of "Green Jail," the notorious coal mine before World War II on Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan.
The movie depicts the harsh realities of coal mining workers in a Moravian city (Ostrava).