Дерек Зуландер — мужчина-модель №1 в мире. Точнее, он был лучшим в течение последних лет. На церемонии вручения премии мужчинам-моделям в этом году приз у него отобрал главный конкурент Хэнсел.
Ещё через несколько дней по нелепому стечению обстоятельств при взрыве бензоколонки погибают три лучших друга Дерека. После этого ему приходит в голову ужасная для мужчины-модели мысль: а что если смысл жизни заключается в чём-то ещё, кроме как во внешности?
Затем ведущий модельер приглашает Дерека стать новым лицом его марки. Наивный Зуландер не предполагает, что его ждёт западня…
В октябре 1957 года произошло событие эпохального значения. Советский Союз впервые в истории человечества запустил на земную орбиту первый «Спутник». Мир стал другим.Запуск советской ракеты произвел неизгладимое впечатление на мальчика по имени Хомер Хикэм из небольшого шахтерского городка Колвуд в Западной Вирджинии. Всерьез «заболевший» космосом, Хомер решает построить собственную ракету. В этом ему начинают помогать трое друзей и школьная учительница. Однако отец Хомера, шахтер — работяга, видящий сына только в роли продолжателя своего нелегкого дела, категорически противится стремлениям своего ребенка. Но, несмотря ни на что, мальчик сделает всевозможное и невозможное, чтобы его мечта стала явью…
Угледобывающий район в Южном Уэльсе, тяжелый труд шахтеров, жизнь их семей увидены глазами Хью, младшего из шести детей семьи во главе с суровым отцом и любящей матерью.
Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.
Смена шахтёров оказывается в ловушке в 600 футах под землей после катастрофического обвала. Когда воздух становится более токсичным, а время истекает, они постепенно впадают в безумие и начинают ссориться друг с другом. Вдохновлено реальными событиями.
Девять шахтёров оказываются в ловушке на глубине двух миль под землёй горной системы Аппалачи после взрыва метана. А запаса кислорода им хватит всего на один час.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that followed the expiration of their contract and Pittston's termination of the medical benefits of 1,500 pensioners, widows, and disabled miners.
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life begins to change in ways she could have never anticipated.
“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.
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
The Toilers (1928)
OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of UMWA history and of the Pittston strike of 1989-90.
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com
A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia revealed a treasure trove of fossils from animals that lived ten million years after the KT extinction that killed the dinosaurs. Surprisingly, enormous reptiles were dominate. Scientists investigate who was the apex predator of the era - Titanoboa, a quarter ton giant snake five times bigger than the largest anaconda, or a similarly giant crocodilian with an incredibly deadly bite force. —David Foss