The Toilers (1928)

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

1957年10月、ソ連が人類初の人工衛星スプートニクの打ち上げに成功した。ウエスト・ヴァージニア州の炭坑の町コールウッドで、その美しい軌跡を見ていた青年ホーマーは、自らの手でロケットを打ち上げたいと思い、級友3人とともに本格的なロケットづくりにとりかかった。

朝鮮戦争中、父親と末の妹と生き別れたドクス（ファン・ジョンミン）は、母親と2人のきょうだいと一緒に避難民として釜山で暮らすことに。まだ幼いながらも家長として家族を守ることを心に誓った彼は、自分のことは後回しにしていつも必死に働いてきた。その後、西ドイツの炭鉱で働き、ベトナム戦争に従軍するなど、ドクスは何度も命の危険にさらされる。

Derek Zoolander（Stiller）は、過去3年間で最も人気のある男性モデルです。 彼の4番目の冠である可能性のあるガラの夜に、この賞はHansel（Wilson）と呼ばれる新しいモデルに贈られます。 デレクは尋問され、馬鹿のように、引退することを決めます。 しかし、一流のデザイナーは彼に彼を誇示するように頼みます。

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.

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.

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.

A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.

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 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 documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.

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