miners strike movies

Billy Elliot (2000)
7.597 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Music

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

Pride (2014)
7.725 / 10

Drama, Comedy

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one...

Matewan (1987)
7.3 / 10

Drama, History

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Pitfall (1962)
7.314 / 10

Fantasy, Crime, Drama

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...

Harlan County U.S.A. (1977)
7.6 / 10

Documentary

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973....

The Mole (2011)
6.5 / 10

Thriller

Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern...

Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story (1990)
0 / 10

Documentary

OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film...

Borinage (1934)
6.2 / 10

Documentary

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

Lidé pod zemí (1973)
0 / 10

Drama, History

The Red and the Black (1985)
5 / 10

History, Drama, Romance

This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became...

Strike! The Women Who Fought Back (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

In their own words, this is the story of six women from the South Wales valleys and how they helped sustain the bitter year-long miners' strike,...

"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)
6 / 10

Documentary, History

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...