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- The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
- After a miner is killed by a corrupt union leader, his son, an attorney, embarks on a quest for justice, unraveling a web of deceit and violence.
- An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
- So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
- The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner's daughter exploring the region's dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty.
- In this documentary, Sarah Rush takes us back to the coal-mining town of her youth -- Carmichaels, Penn., population: 556. At the 50th anniversary of the Coal Queen Pageant in August 2003, we're introduced to 14 young ladies who are vying for the coveted crown.
- A docuseries chronicling the dangerous profession of coal mining, set in West Virginia.
- A short film documenting the independent truckers hauling cola in Kentucky
- Uniquely structured upon the personal storytelling of native West Virginians, Devil Put The Coal In The Ground is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and it's decline. From the realities of a crumbling economy, to the ravages of the opioid epidemic, to the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health - the film is a cautionary tale of unfettered corporate power, and an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia.
- Eesa and Mokhtar are two miners who get into a fight. Eesa pushes Mokhtar to the ground, and Mokhtar falls down. Mokhtar's oxygen tank hits the ground, releasing a lot of oxygen. No one notices what happens to Mokhtar's oxygen tank. While everyone is working in the mine, Eesa realizes that methane gas is leaking in the tunnel. Eesa helps several workers, but Mokhtar dies in the accident due to his empty oxygen tank. Eesa blames himself for Mokhtar's death, which he believes would be accepting responsibility for murder. Now Eesa must choose between lying and becoming a hero or telling the truth, which would make him a killer.
- The story of Greek immigrants who were brought to the Colorado coal mines to work under inhuman conditions and who, together with immigrants from 22 other countries, revolted and wrote a proud page of American labor history, known as the Colorado Coal War of 1913-14.
- In Huntington Utah, Mexican miners strike over unfair wages and unsatisfactory working conditions at the polygamist run Co-Operative mine (only few miles away from Crandall Canyon Mine where the six trapped miners lost their life in August 2007).
- A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipping.
- As ginseng prices ascend beyond $1,000 per pound, the Lang family struggles to protect their fifth generation Appalachian ginseng farm from poachers. When patriarch Jeff drags home a dying intruder, granddaughter Tori grapples with filial piety and the bone-chilling revelation that there are sinister sides to the people she loves.
- Told from 4 contrasting perspectives, Coal Keeps The Lights On is an original 4-song musical detailing the varying impacts of a tragic coal mine collapse.
- An insight look to the coal industry in China, the conditions under the workers must their job and the risks that they are constantly exposed. In the coal route that goes from the mines of Shanxi to the great harbor in Jianjin, the drivers of the trucks goes up and down this road day and night.
- Korba, a small district in Central India is where a fourth of India's coal is mined, mostly for producing electricity. Mining over decades has left the land ravaged, the air and water severely contaminated and the lives of its people, disrupted. Through the story of a tribal woman who is set to lose her land and a local activist fighting for justice, the film seeks to make a comment on the present day development paradigm where those who pay the price for development seldom benefit from it.
- Documentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.
- Three families are transported back to 1927 and the war years to experience life in the mines without modern conveniences.
- "Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded."
- Amidst the Colombian Andean mountains, Luis Ordúz, an old artisanal miner faces the dichotomy of finally enjoying his retirement from this rough craft or keeping on working to honor a promise he made long ago; while also facing the pain of being aware of the damage it has caused to the land and the environment.
- "Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners" is a feature documentary about the last twelve independent coal miners in the United States and reveals the crushing injustices they face as the desperately cling to a familiar way of life while fighting off threats from unfamiliar enemies. The film is personal, political, and powerful.
- A newspaper account causes Ethel to boastfully declare, "Burglars are not intelligent or they wouldn't be caught. I'll wager I could rob a house and not get caught." Her friends take her up on the bet and brother Fred suggests the house of Jack, a wealthy bachelor, as a likely victim. Ethel goes off to prepare for the job while Fred telephones Jack who leaves the window conveniently open, dons a rough garb and hides on the lawn in waiting for his visitor. After Ethel has entered Jack follows, and in a minute Ethel has covered him with his own revolver saying, "How dare you attempt to rob my home." She phones for the police but Jack works on her sympathy and promises to reform so she gets him a job as coal-heaver in her father's company. Jack gets a substitute to hold the job for him and as the "sub" is possessed of both a wife and dishonest ways the complications that follow before Jack and Ethel win happiness may be seen to provide many an opportunity for laughs.
- Coal In Their Veins is a powerful gritty multi award winning British film. It is the story of Alison (Lisa Allen) and her fight to save her son Carl (Declan O'Connor) from the grip of heroin addiction in a Yorkshire mining town.
- Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
- Recently separated from his paraplegic wife, can a coal miner realize his own potential under the pressure of maintaining a relationship with his only son?
- In 1975 a series of bloody murders were taking place in a small SW Virginia coal mining town and a section of the town known as coal miners holler.
- During the Napoleonic era, in Cádiz, a singer walks the streets singing her songs. However, her outward joy is deceptive since the man she is in love with is on the other side, in the French army.
- TV Series
- Low Coal is a deeply troubling window into the world of the Coal industry and the areas it has colonized. Showing what it's like to live with the legacy of Coal, this film profiles dozens caught up in the battle over Coal's future. There's a battle going on in the Southern Coalfields, summed up in an oft-quoted phrase by those who would like to see all mining end- There are no jobs on a dead planet. While this battle rages outside the mines, miners face barbaric conditions and extreme risks underground to, in their words, 'keep our economy going'. Low Coal is an un-varnished expose of life and struggle in the coalfields of the 21st century.
- A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.
- Little Willie is the most mischievous boy in the neighborhood, and is usually very fortunate in getting away after playing one of his pranks, but in this instance he happens to get the worst of the deal. He upsets a vendor's cart and makes off, and when the fellow chases him he hides in a coal bag. Soon a man comes along to purchase a bag of coal and they throw a scoop full into the bag on top of Willie. The purchaser then shoulders the bag and as he is going along the street the youngster manages to get his head through a hole and annoys everyone that passes. Soon the fellow throws the bag on the road, and has just time enough to step aside when an auto runs over it, but Willie manages to come out of the ordeal in good shape. Finally the man carries his burden to a coal chute and dumps the contents into a cellar. Down comes Willie in a heap, only to meet at the end of the chute another enemy, the janitor, who gives him a good spanking and chases him home.
- In the middle of the coal mining mecca of Southern West Virginia, the Richardson family turns away from coal in order to focus on the family farm.
- A moving film on the loss of childhood innocence and coming of age in a deprived European community. Fifteen-year-old Loïc and his ten-year-old brother, Théo, live in the former mining town of Lens in France. Surrounded by poverty and unemployment, Loïc has stopped going to school. While his teachers try to encourage him, his mother Patricia struggles to hold the family together. A reflection on the devastating effects of poverty and finding hope in the most unlikely of places.
- Docu-drama that reconstructs the events of the coal strike of 1949 and the Labor government response.
- In 'Coals to Newcastle,' UK funk band, The New Mastersounds, bring the funk back to a post-Katrina New Orleans during Jazzfest 2007.
- The video for Coal Chamber's single "Loco", from their 1997 self-titled debut album.
- Lock the Gate Alliance presents the stories of communities fighting to defend themselves against Big Coal across Australia.
- This performance series features bands and artists from all genres performing custom, stripped back versions of their hit songs. Each episode takes place on a canal boat in London, where the artists play for unsuspecting people, and wildlife, passing by.
- The relentless battle for justice by a rural Appalachian community taking on a coal company due to contaminated water, which they charge is the cause of widespread sickness.
- Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet's shrinking supply of natural resources? While Beverly organizes her neighbors and leads a legal fight to stop Miller Brothers Coal Company from advancing into her hollow, Terry considers signing away the mining rights to his backyard-a decision that could destroy not only the two friends' homes, but the peace and environment surrounding their community. The two friends soon find themselves caught in the middle. of a contentious battle over energy and the wealth and environmental destruction it represents. Deep Down brings to light questions of our own morality, our connection to the earth's resources, and most importantly, our link to people whose daily lives are far removed from our own and yet deeply impacted through our actions. As the world's population soars, humankind must mine the earth's natural resources to feed our voracious appetite for energy, fighting wars over diminishing supplies of water, oil, and coal. But it is not only the earth itself that is rapidly changing and disappearing: as we excavate resources in ever-expanding areas, small communities are being flattened, taking with them our world's diverse cultures, traditions, and lives. Through a complex human story that cuts across environment, economics, public policy, and culture, the story of Beverly May and Terry Ratliff reveals the devastating impact of our energy consumption against an explosive backdrop: Appalachia's centuries-old struggle over the black rock that fuels our planet.
- Thirty years after the murder of Manson Kilmore, the town of Coal Miners Gap have a new series of murders. The question is, is the killer human or something more? And what is the connection to Manson Kilmore and the deaths in 1975?