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1. Bad for Each Other (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A doctor returning from the Korean War to his hometown in Pennsylvania must choose what next to do with his life.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock
Votes: 966
2. October Sky (1999)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen
Votes: 98,403 | Gross: $32.48M
3. The Ice Road (2021)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder
Votes: 47,967
4. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp
Votes: 26,642
5. Wicked Little Things (2006)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 8,676
6. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,764 | Gross: $0.38M
7. Beneath (V) (2013)
Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another.
Director: Ben Ketai | Stars: Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari, Jeff Fahey
Votes: 4,741
8. Salt of the Earth (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History
Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer
Votes: 4,056
9. The Clairvoyant (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare, Ben Field
Votes: 1,203
10. Fighting Mad (1976)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Philip Carey
Votes: 670
11. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 494
12. The 33 of San Jose (2010)
86 min | Drama
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Director: Antonio Recio Beladiez | Stars: Alejandro Goic, Mario Soto, Cristian Mercado, Pancho González
Votes: 183
13. Cave In (2003 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a cave in threatens the lives of four miners, including a father and son, it becomes a fight for survival. The superintendent struggles against the ticking clock to save her crew and family from impending doom.
Director: Rex Piano | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Bruce Allpress, Paul Gittins
Votes: 179
14. If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
89 min | Action, Crime
Riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in 1960. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for these idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in the chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuo Ishidate, Gin Maeda, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi
Votes: 243
15. Der Uranberg (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, History
Kurt Meinel returns from his Soviet POW camp to his native mining village, hating Hitler enough for wrecking Europe to support the Russian regional occupation commander Bursky, in charge of... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Bobyleva, Henry Hübchen, Christian Redl
Votes: 62
16. A Light in Dark Places (2003 TV Movie)
182 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers, Heike Makatsch, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 346
17. Night Ride (1937)
70 min | Drama
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of ... See full summary »
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Julian Vedey, Jimmy Hanley, Wally Patch, Joan Ponsford
Votes: 87
18. The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A look at the Buffalo Creek disaster, which occurred when a coal-waste dam collapsed. Includes interviews with survivors, mining officials, and union representatives, along with footage of the flood itself.
Director: Mimi Pickering
Votes: 72
19. The Courage of the Common Place (1917)
Drama
John McLean fails to obtain the coveted honor of selection to the Senior Society at Yale, but is cheered by a letter from his father who reminds him that the courage of the commonplace is ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Turbett | Stars: Leslie Austin, William Calhoun, Mildred Havens, Jessie Stevens
20. Soma #301 (2014)
Short, Drama
On 13 May 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire which was the worst mine disaster in Turkey's history. The explosion killed 301 workers.... See full summary »
Director: Veysel Celik | Stars: Asiye Alimci Celik, Hasan Cay, Asli Celikel, Ergun Goncüler
Votes: 9
21. The Strike at the Mines (1911)
Drama, Short
Sanders, as orphan boy, upon discovering a fire in one of the shafts of a coal mine, rushes into the burning mine and gives warning to the men. They all escape, but in their frantic efforts... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Charles Ogle, Nancy Avril, Edwin Clarke, Frank McGlynn Sr.
22. The Toilers (1928)
80 min | Drama
Ralston runs away from the house of ill fame and takes shelter with miner Fairbanks and his pals in their hut. This causes some unease but all is is forgotten when a fire in the mine traps Doug and calls out the rescue effort.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Harvey Clark, Wade Boteler
Votes: 16
23. Meeting Again: Remembering the Millfield Mine Disaster (2001)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Through the eyes of the last survivor, Sigmund Kozma, Meeting Again captures a terrible personal moment that makes up the only real record of Ohio's largest mining disaster.
Director: Justin Zimmerman | Star: Sigmund Kozma
24. Scotland's First Oil Rush (2016 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
Geologist Professor Iain Stewart tells the fascinating story of the shale oil industry in Scotland and its impact on the people, landscape and culture of West Lothian.
Director: Brian Ross | Stars: Iain Stewart, Tina Doyle, David Darling, Sybil Cavanagh
Votes: 9
25. Fire at the Mines (1911)
12 min | Short, Drama
A tale of two rivals for the same girl's heart, the loser, a noble fellow who later sacrifices his life in order to save that of his former rival. Both are colliers in the same mine, and ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Perret
Votes: 16
26. Senghenydd: Portrait of a Mining Town (1966)
17 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary on the South Wales village of Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, which suffered the greatest disaster in British coal mining history in 1913, when 439 men lost their lives in a coal dust explosion.
Director: Jim Clark | Star: Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
27.
Sunday Night (1965–1968)
Episode:
Master Singers: Two Choirs and a Valley
(1965)
44 min | Documentary
Two neighbouring choirs exchange a visit in the Welsh village of Senghenydd, the site of Britain's worst mining disaster many years previously.
Director: Robert Vas | Star: Ewan MacColl
28.
The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963)
Episode:
Wheresoever I Enter...
(1962)
30 min | Drama
While covering a coal mine accident in West Virginia, Adam learns that a doctor passing through the town is treating injured workers miles below the earth's surface and wonders what could have motivated him to risk his life for strangers.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Harry Guardino, Alejandro Rey, Sara Taft
Votes: 8
29.
Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode:
Comstock Conspiracy
(1957)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
Bret is forced to kill someone in self-defense when he tries to collect a gambling debt. The next day the dead man turns up alive, and Bret tries to unravel the mystery.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: James Garner, Ruta Lee, Werner Klemperer, Ed Prentiss
Votes: 133
30.
The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode:
Those Who Wait
(1952)
Drama
Four men are trapped in a coal mine disaster resulting in the death of one of the miners. Their wives wait to learn which of their husbands survived the cave-in.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Mary Anderson, Bernadene Hayes
31.
Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode:
The Uranium Mine
(1952)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Helen Davis is dispatched to report on a mine disaster and discovers the catastrophe was no accident - it was meant to hide the theft of uranium ore.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds | Stars: Sydna Scott, Bernard Farrel, Dora Doll, Lou van Burg
32.
Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode:
Episode #2.10
(1977)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance
Caroline goes to London after her child's death, Whitworth reestablishes relations with money, and Ross secretly visits Elizabeth during a Warleggan party.
Director: Philip Dudley | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Christopher Biggins, Michael Cadman
Votes: 23
33.
Resident Alien (2021– )
Episode:
Pilot
(2021)
TV-14 | 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An alien hiding in a small Colorado town meets the locals when they ask him to help solve a murder.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund
Votes: 3,183
34.
Welcome to Wrexham (2022– )
Episode:
Gresford
(2023)
TV-MA | 23 min | Documentary, Sport
The darkest day in Wrexham history looms over the team and town as they try to shift to a winning mentality.
Stars: Wrexham A.F.C., Ben Foster, Scott Galloway, Mark Griffiths
Votes: 564