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  1. Coal Personalities

    Date released
    19 Aug 1926
    Series name
    Empire News Bulletin
    Issue no
    32
    NoS ID
    047502
    Story no
    7 / 10

    Slade catalogue entry: Coal. Miners Federation Meet Kingsway Hall. Open door to Peace. Mr Herbert Smith (Miners Pres.).

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  2. Dole Not Coal: The 1984 Miners’ Strike: The Strikers’ Story

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    This film pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the strike, together with the cause and effect to the striking miners in a dispute unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly...

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  3. Skin and Coal (1987 Video)

    Director
    Claudine Boothe
    Producer
    Claudine Boothe
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.

    Tells the story of black miners and their families in Doncaster, Leeds and Nottingham. Black miners have now established themselves within most jobs in the industry although, until relatively recently, some...

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  4. Day in the Life of a Coalminer, A (1910 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A typical working day in the mines of the early 1900s. The film captures the sweat and grime of the pits at a time when women and children took full share in the labour. A forerunner to today’s television...

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  5. Tinker (1949)

    Director
    Herbert P. J. Marshall
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £12.99

    A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...

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  6. Portrait of a Coalminer (2009)

    Subject
    History; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 347 minutes), £24.99

    This two-disc DVD collection brings together over five hours of short films exploring the lives of the British coal miner. Remastered drama-documentaries, cartoons and news footage, all produced by the...

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  7. Still the Enemy Within (2014)

    Director
    Owen Gower
    Producer
    Owen Gower
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

    The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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  8. Coal House, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

    Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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  9. Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

    Director
    Philip Leacock
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

    A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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  10. News Flashes from Everywhere

    Date released
    7 Jun 1937
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    655
    NoS ID
    035231
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 shot list

    Coal miners "sit down" strike down the mine.

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