The Toilers (1928)

Três quilômetros abaixo da terra na cordilheira dos Apalaches, nove mineiros lutam para sobreviver depois que uma explosão os deixa com apenas uma hora de oxigênio.

No final dos anos 50, o adolescente Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) vive em uma cidade onde a mineração é a maior empregadora local. Ao saber que os russos colocaram o satélite Sputnik em órbita, Homer começa a sonhar em também colocar um foguete seu em órbita. Logo ele convence alguns amigos a participarem do projeto e, com o apoio de uma professora, dá início ao projeto que irá mudar sua vida para sempre.

Coréia, 1950. A promessa de uma criança de cuidar de sua família marca o início de uma promessa ao longo de sessenta anos.

O modelo masculino Derek Zoolander está na fase descendente da sua carreira, após ter ganho três anos consecutivos o título "Modelo Masculino do Ano", título em que é substituído por um modelo mais recente, Hansel. Derek começa então a procurar um novo sentido na sua vida. O «czar» da moda Mugatu, oferece-lhe um retorno aos píncaros da fama na sua nova linha "Derelicte". No entanto, ninguém suspeita das intenções de Mugatu em assassinar o primeiro-ministro da Malásia na sua visita a Nova-Iorque, de modo a continuar a ter trabalho infantil na produção da sua moda. Ao fazerem uma lavagem cerebral a Derek, Mugatu e a sua maléfica associada Katinka criam um assassino descerebrado e às suas ordens, para fazer o trabalho. Apenas uma jornalista da Revista Time, Matilda, descobre o plano e tenta impedir Derek.

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