Showing 1 - 10 of 24 titles with a criteria of Subject is Mining Sector

Arrows Against the Wind

West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for  25,000 years.  The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 1993 | 52 minutes

Black Diamonds

Examines the escalating drama in Appalachia over mountaintop removal mining.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 72 minutes

Choropampa

When a devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation hits a quiet peasant village in the Peruvian Andes, a courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for healthcare and justice.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 75 minutes

The Coal Miner's Day

Every day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 80 minutes

Dying for Gold

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 98 minutes

The Enemy Within

The story of Britain's longest strike, the 1984-85 miners' strike, when Margaret Thatcher declared war on the unions, as told by those who lived through it.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 112 minutes

Gold's Lethal Toll in Indonesia

Spotlights the alarming global rise of mercury pollution of air, water, and soil as well as severe disabilities, diseases, and death attributed to mercury poisoning in developing communities involved in small-scale gold mining, one of the major sources of mercury pollution worldwide.

Face to Face Media | 2015 | 7 minutes

How to Steal a Country

The story of the Gupta family’s spectacular rise from flea market shoe salesmen to establishing a massive black-owned business empire in South Africa.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 87 minutes

In the Light of Reverence - Hopi Land

The Hopi fight to preserve their land and water from strip mining.

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 29 minutes

The Last Mountain

The Last Mountain documents the struggles of a small West Virginia community fighting to preserve Coal River Mountain from mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and to expose the impact of the coal industry on their lives and health.

Face to Face Media | 2011 | 95 minutes