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This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...
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...
This 2-disc collection showcases and celebrates the extraordinary work of the National Coal Board Film Unit - operating between 1947-1984 - producing films to inform, entertain and galvanise working people...
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’...
The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...
A book of essays on the 1984-85 miners’ strike and the 2001 re-enactment of the stand-off in Orgreave, organised by Jeremy Deller and sponsored by Artangel. The accompanying CD contains poetry and songs...
A compilation from the unique collection of the North West Film Archive containing films of the region. Starting on Blackpool seafront in 1899 and ending in the streets of Salford in 1969, coverage includes...
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...
Cook was national secretary of the Miners’ Federation in 1926. He is remembered by historian Paul Davies, Will Paynter, Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill. Comments on the General Strike are juxtaposed...
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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