Queen of Coal

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Michael Apted

Cast

Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and...

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

John Sayles

Cast

Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident a...

Runtime

1h 32m

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

Runtime

2h

Director

Martin Ritt

Cast

Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Richard Harris

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

John Ford

Cast

Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee