Tag: coal mining

  • Broken Rainbow

    Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

  • Matewan

    Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named “Few Clothes” Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan’s vested interests so that justice and workers’…

  • Pit Pony

    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…

  • Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1

    In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.