Shahid Khant brit vonatok kirablása miatt száműzésre ítélik, de megfogadja, hogy bosszút fog állni. Egy szénbányában kell dolgoznia, ahol később megölik. Shahid Khan fia, Sardar Khan bosszút akar állni és visszaszerezni apja becsületét. Ő lesz az indiai város, Wasseypur legrettegettebb polgára.
1880 táján egy nyugalmas walesi völgy lakói nyugodt életüket veszélyeztetve érzik, mivel a völgyben nagy kiterjedésű szénlelőhelyet fedeznek fel. A föld kincsének feltárása a bányatulajdonosok nagyszabású beavatkozása nyomán indul be. A film egy bányászcsalád sorsán keresztül ábrázolja azokat az emberi konfliktusokat, melyek a fordulat időszakában keletkeznek. A kapitalizálódás a vidéki lakosság életét igencsak megváltoztatja, s nekik alkalmazkodniuk kell.
Nyugat-Virginia, 1920. Az utolsó verítékcsöppjükig kizsigerelt szénbányászok sztrájkja már régóta tart. A bányatulajdonosok új sztrájktörőket hoznak: feketéket és frissen érkezett olasz bevándorlókat. A bányászok megpróbálnak szakszervezetet alakítani, de a társaság által fizetett ügynökök valósággal vadásznak a főszervezőkre. Az események véres tragédiába torkollnak...
A pennsylvániai szénbányász társaság megbízza a Pinkerton Detektív Ügynökséget 1876-ban, hogy számolják fel a bányavidéken működő terrorista szervezetet, mely sok borsot tör az orruk alá. Az ír származású James McParlan nyomozó könnyen beépül a főleg honfitársaiból álló bányászközösségbe. Nemcsak elnyeri a vezérük, Jack Kehoe bizalmát, de a lánya szerelmét is. McParlan rájön, hogy a Kehoe vezette terroristák valójában az életveszélyes munkafeltételek és a munkások embertelen életkörülményei ellen harcolnak.
Loretta, aki egy egyszerű szénbányász lánya, nagyravágyó férjének nyomására kimozdul gyermekkora kisvárosának egyhangú környezetéből. Célja pedig, hogy country-énekesként meghódítsa a világot. A siker végül elérhető közelségbe kerül, ám nem biztos, hogy a pénz és a csillogás az, amire Loretta igazán vágyik?
Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.
Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.
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.
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.
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.
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Scotia. BESCO cut wages by a third, setting off a bitter labour dispute. The miners settled in for a long strike. Finally, in 1925, the military ended the unrest with brute force. But the miners, in one sense, had won. They broke up the monopoly and provided an example to workers across the country.
Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.
A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.
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.