Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mine-disaster"

1. October Sky (1999)

PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen

Votes: 98,088 | Gross: $32.48M

2. The Ice Road (2021)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder

Votes: 47,701

3. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp

Votes: 26,495

4. Wicked Little Things (2006)

R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 8,656

5. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,748 | Gross: $0.38M

6. Beneath (V) (2013)

Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another.

Director: Ben Ketai | Stars: Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari, Jeff Fahey

Votes: 4,730

7. Salt of the Earth (1954)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer

Votes: 4,045

8. The Clairvoyant (1935)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare, Ben Field

Votes: 1,200

9. Bad for Each Other (1953)

Approved | 83 min | Drama

A doctor returning from the Korean War to his hometown in Pennsylvania must choose what next to do with his life

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock

Votes: 805

10. Fighting Mad (1976)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Philip Carey

Votes: 667

11. Dynamite (1929)

Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye

Votes: 491

12. Cave In (2003 TV Movie)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a cave in threatens the lives of four miners, including a father and son, it becomes a fight for survival. The superintendent struggles against the ticking clock to save her crew and family from impending doom.

Director: Rex Piano | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Bruce Allpress, Paul Gittins

Votes: 179

13. If You Were Young: Rage (1970)

89 min | Action, Crime

Riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in 1960. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for these idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in the chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuo Ishidate, Gin Maeda, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi

Votes: 242

14. A Light in Dark Places (2003 TV Movie)

182 min | Adventure, Drama

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Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers, Heike Makatsch, Nadja Uhl

Votes: 346

15. The 33 of San Jose (2010)

86 min | Drama

A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.

Director: Antonio Recio Beladiez | Stars: Alejandro Goic, Mario Soto, Cristian Mercado, Pancho González

Votes: 182

16. The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)

40 min | Documentary, Short

A look at the Buffalo Creek disaster, which occurred when a coal-waste dam collapsed. Includes interviews with survivors, mining officials, and union representatives, along with footage of the flood itself.

Director: Mimi Pickering

Votes: 70

17. Der Uranberg (2010 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama, History

Kurt Meinel returns from his Soviet POW camp to his native mining village, hating Hitler enough for wrecking Europe to support the Russian regional occupation commander Bursky, in charge of... See full summary »

Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Bobyleva, Henry Hübchen, Christian Redl

Votes: 62

18. Soma #301 (2014)

Short, Drama

On 13 May 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire which was the worst mine disaster in Turkey's history. The explosion killed 301 workers.... See full summary »

Director: Veysel Celik | Stars: Asiye Alimci Celik, Hasan Cay, Asli Celikel, Ergun Goncüler

Votes: 9

19. The Toilers (1928)

80 min | Drama

Ralston runs away from the house of ill fame and takes shelter with miner Fairbanks and his pals in their hut. This causes some unease but all is is forgotten when a fire in the mine traps Doug and calls out the rescue effort.

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Harvey Clark, Wade Boteler

Votes: 15

20. Night Ride (1937)

70 min | Drama

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of ... See full summary »

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Julian Vedey, Jimmy Hanley, Wally Patch, Joan Ponsford

Votes: 87

21. The Courage of the Common Place (1917)

Drama

John McLean fails to obtain the coveted honor of selection to the Senior Society at Yale, but is cheered by a letter from his father who reminds him that the courage of the commonplace is ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Turbett | Stars: Leslie Austin, William Calhoun, Mildred Havens, Jessie Stevens

22. Meeting Again: Remembering the Millfield Mine Disaster (2001)

10 min | Documentary, Short

Through the eyes of the last survivor, Sigmund Kozma, Meeting Again captures a terrible personal moment that makes up the only real record of Ohio's largest mining disaster.

Director: Justin Zimmerman | Star: Sigmund Kozma

23. Fire at the Mines (1911)

12 min | Short, Drama

A tale of two rivals for the same girl's heart, the loser, a noble fellow who later sacrifices his life in order to save that of his former rival. Both are colliers in the same mine, and ... See full summary »

Director: Léonce Perret

Votes: 16

24. The Strike at the Mines (1911)

Drama, Short

Sanders, as orphan boy, upon discovering a fire in one of the shafts of a coal mine, rushes into the burning mine and gives warning to the men. They all escape, but in their frantic efforts... See full summary »

Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Charles Ogle, Nancy Avril, Edwin Clarke, Frank McGlynn Sr.

25. Scotland's First Oil Rush (2016 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

Geologist Professor Iain Stewart tells the fascinating story of the shale oil industry in Scotland and its impact on the people, landscape and culture of West Lothian.

Director: Brian Ross | Stars: Iain Stewart, Tina Doyle, David Darling, Sybil Cavanagh

Votes: 9

26. Senghenydd: Portrait of a Mining Town (1966)

17 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary on the South Wales village of Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, which suffered the greatest disaster in British coal mining history in 1913, when 439 men lost their lives in a coal dust explosion.

Director: Jim Clark | Star: Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

27. Sunday Night (1965–1968)
Episode: Master Singers: Two Choirs and a Valley (1965)

44 min | Documentary

Two neighbouring choirs exchange a visit in the Welsh village of Senghenydd, the site of Britain's worst mining disaster many years previously.

Director: Robert Vas | Star: Ewan MacColl

28. The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963)
Episode: Wheresoever I Enter... (1962)

30 min | Drama

While covering a coal mine accident in West Virginia, Adam learns that a doctor passing through the town is treating injured workers miles below the earth's surface and wonders what could have motivated him to risk his life for strangers.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Harry Guardino, Alejandro Rey, Sara Taft

Votes: 8

29. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Comstock Conspiracy (1957)

TV-G | 49 min | Western

Bret is forced to kill someone in self-defense when he tries to collect a gambling debt. The next day the dead man turns up alive, and Bret tries to unravel the mystery.

Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: James Garner, Ruta Lee, Werner Klemperer, Ed Prentiss

Votes: 131

30. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Those Who Wait (1952)

Drama

Four men are trapped in a coal mine disaster resulting in the death of one of the miners. Their wives wait to learn which of their husbands survived the cave-in.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Mary Anderson, Bernadene Hayes

31. Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode: The Uranium Mine (1952)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Helen Davis is dispatched to report on a mine disaster and discovers the catastrophe was no accident - it was meant to hide the theft of uranium ore.

Director: Sheldon Reynolds | Stars: Sydna Scott, Bernard Farrel, Dora Doll, Lou van Burg

32. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #2.10 (1977)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance

Caroline goes to London after her child's death, Whitworth reestablishes relations with money, and Ross secretly visits Elizabeth during a Warleggan party.

Director: Philip Dudley | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Christopher Biggins, Michael Cadman

Votes: 23

33. Resident Alien (2021– )
Episode: Pilot (2021)

TV-14 | 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An alien hiding in a small Colorado town meets the locals when they ask him to help solve a murder.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund

Votes: 3,128

34. Welcome to Wrexham (2022– )
Episode: Gresford (2023)

TV-MA | 23 min | Documentary, Sport

The darkest day in Wrexham history looms over the team and town as they try to shift to a winning mentality.

Stars: Wrexham A.F.C., Ben Foster, Scott Galloway, Mark Griffiths

Votes: 527