Coal Movies

What will it really take, to transition from oil and coal, to the energies of tomorrow? SWITCH goes where no film has gone before, deep into the...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

This one is amusing in its early use of the rubber tire school of animation as Mr. Givny informs Jerry that they are out of coal for the train. The...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

Thirteen static shots of coal-fired power stations across the United States, seen in rural landscapes, urban settings, sun or cloud and at all times...

"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.

“…It is a film that tells in hurried film sequences and a resonant musical score juxtaposing the sublime, funereal despair of Bartok...

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

A Documentary on the railways and their role in supporting the United States

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber and based upon the short story by Sid Chaplin. Narrated by north east broadcaster Mike Neville the film...