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1) Germinal
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"Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow-miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for...
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Distributed by Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the impoverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are truly...
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Also available online as an ebook on the Project Gutenberg website.
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The story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields. His mother Gertrude, unhappily married to Paul's hard-drinking father, devotes all her energies to her son. They develop a powerful and passionate relationship, but eventually tensions arise when Paul falls in love with a girl and seeks to escape his family.
6) Still life
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New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives.
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Criterion collection volume 334
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
8) Mine 9
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123 Go Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.
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Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection volume disc 6
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Miss Moffat is a spinster schoolteacher who inherits a house in a Welsh mining town. She finds the miners living in squalor and ignorance, and is determined to open a school to teach not only the children but also anybody from the village that is interested in learning. Aiding her is Mrs. Watty, a reformed thief, the young spinster Miss Ronberry, and John Goronwy Jones, who looks after the house. There is resistance to the idea of a school. Miss Moffat...
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Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean.
"A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea."--
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
12) The mine wars
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Looks at the West Virginia Mine wars that took place 1897-1921 which developed out of a dispute between coal companies and the coal miners.
13) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Uncovers the sobering resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, the cover-up activities of the coal mining industry, and the awareness activities of regional mining communities.
18) Women in love
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Pub. Date
[1920]
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Also available online as an ebook on the Project Gutenberg website.
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Women in Love is a sequel to Lawrence's earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships...
19) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatized version of the battles which took place in the coal fields of West Virginia in the 1920s when the union and the coal companies were at odds.
20) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
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1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old Billy does not like the brutal boxing lessons at school, so he falls for the girls' ballet lessons instead. His family doesn't approve, so he must train in secret.
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