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1. Pride (I) (2014)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine
Votes: 61,652
2. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,856 | Gross: $22.00M
3. Money Monster (2016)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.
Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West
Votes: 105,288 | Gross: $41.01M
4. Sherwood (II) (2022– )
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history.
Stars: Adam Hugill, Lorraine Ashbourne, Perry Fitzpatrick, Philip Jackson
Votes: 9,312
5. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,633
6. Harlan County War (2000 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson
Votes: 621
7. Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
R | 92 min | Comedy
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Ugo Pagliai
Votes: 747
8. Faith (2005 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85.
Director: David Thacker | Stars: Christine Tremarco, Jamie Draven, Kelli Hollis, Maxine Peake
Votes: 55
9. Which Side Are You On? (1984)
53 min | Documentary
Songs, poems and experiences of the Miners' Strike, 1984.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Charles Boal, Eric Booth, Keith Brookes, Ann Burrell
Votes: 107
10. The Mole (2011)
107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Lewandowski | Stars: Borys Szyc, Marian Dziedziel, Magdalena Czerwinska, Wojciech Pszoniak
Votes: 787
11. Daydream Believers (2018)
101 min | Documentary
In 1997, the town of Barnsley was still reeling from the impacts of the greatest industrial dispute this country had ever seen. The Government of the day had ripped up the industry the ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Johnson | Stars: Shaun Dooley, Ken Loach, Henry Winter, Danny Wilson
Votes: 27
12. It's a Hard Life (1964)
104 min | Comedy
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Rossana Martini, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 422
13. Perla w koronie (1972)
111 min | Drama
Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.
Director: Kazimierz Kutz | Stars: Lucja Kowolik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Franciszek Pieczka
Votes: 339
14. Cantata de Chile (1976)
119 min | Drama, History
An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist
Votes: 37
15. V. (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary
Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc. Starting from an incident in a Leeds' graveyard where the poet's ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Star: Tony Harrison
Votes: 25
16. The Battle of Orgreave (2001 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. The dispute lasted for over a year and was the most bitterly fought since the general strike of 1926, marking a turning point in ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Russell Alden, Richard Allen, Barry Askham, Wayne Banham
Votes: 51
17. The Cacophony of Donbas (2018)
62 min | Documentary
This is a film-reflection. The idea of the film is to study the myth of Donbas using archives of documentary and feature films.
Director: Igor Minaiev
Votes: 38
18. A Man's Fight (1919)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her. Although Ethel, ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Dorothy Wallace, J. Barney Sherry, Wedgwood Nowell
Votes: 27
19. Young Hearts Run Free (2011)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
Community, Friendship, First Loves, Rebellion! 1974: Against the backdrop of a violent miners strike in their quiet Northumbrian village, a likeable teenage artist falls in love with the ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Mark Simpson | Stars: Andy Black, Jennifer Bryden, Lyndsey Lennon, Danny McCready
Votes: 23
20. Mrs Thatcher vs the Miners (2021 TV Movie)
67 min | Documentary
Documentary examining how Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain's coal miners in the 1984 miners' strike and in doing so changed the face of Britain forever.
Director: Brendan Hughes | Star: Sarah Parish
Votes: 15
21. This Is America (1933)
70 min | Documentary
A compilation of newsreel clips covering historic world events in the U.S. from the end of World War I until 1933.
Star: Alois Havrilla
22. Remine: el último movimiento obrero (2014)
102 min | Documentary, Action, Drama
May of 2013. Spain suffers the worst economic crisis in the last 70 years. Citizens are paralyzed by sadness and fear, everyone except a group of workers that have resisted change during ... See full summary »
Director: Marcos M. Merino
Votes: 23
23. Miner (2015)
Short, Drama
Director: Tom Young | Stars: L.J. Ashurst, Richard John Burton, Karl Cross, Cohen Day
Votes: 6
25. Love's Turmoil (1917)
Passed | 30 min | Short, Action, Crime
Dorothy Gray, daughter of a mine owner, is in love with the mine superintendent, Robert Blake. John Daly has been fired because he is a slacker and is jealous of Blake. He learns that the ... See full summary »
Star: Edna Maison
26. The Plunderer (1915)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Bill Matthews and his partner, owners of the "Croix D'or mine, are beset on all sides dues to the schemes of a trusted colleague who plots to take their mine away from them, and leaves no under-handed method un-attempted in the process.
Director: Edgar Lewis | Stars: William Farnum, Claire Whitney, Harry Spingler, Elizabeth Eyre
Votes: 28
27.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
The Zone
(1993)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Charlie alerts Duncan to a mysterious man who may be able to reduce violence in "the Zone," a dangerous slum neighborhood.
Director: Clay Borris | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Philip Akin, Jim Byrnes
Votes: 186
28.
To Serve Them All My Days (1980–1981)
Episode:
Part Six
(1980)
Drama
David is devastated by the death of Beth and the twins, and contemplates leaving Bamfylde for good. Years later, David discovers Carter has been calling his house the Kremlin and demands an... See full summary »
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: John Duttine, Frank Middlemass, Alan MacNaughtan, Patricia Lawrence
Votes: 16
29.
Railway Murders (2021– )
Episode:
The Police Killer
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
The first time a railway police officer was murdered in the line of duty. 37-year-old Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was murdered in Sepember 1895, while investigating a spate of thefts from goods wagons in a yard at Wigan railway station.
Director: William Simpson | Stars: Nicholas Day, Alan Moss, Judith Rowbotham, Donald Rumbelow
Votes: 8
30.
The Crown (2016–2023)
Episode:
Imbroglio
(2019)
TV-MA | 47 min | Biography, Drama, History
While Princess Anne dates her elder brother's polo rival Andrew Parker Bowles, Prince Charles falls deeply in love with Camilla Shand causing the Queen Mother and Lord Mountbatten to interfere.
Director: Samuel Donovan | Stars: Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Daniels
Votes: 3,774
31.
Back in Time for Tea (2018– )
Episode:
80s & 90s
(2018)
59 min | Documentary, Family, History
The Ellises live through a time of dramatic change. Their 80's home is a homage to chintz and magnolia with the exciting addition of some new technology: their first telephone, and chest freezer.
Director: Irshad Ashraf | Stars: Sara Cox, Polly Russell, Caitlin Ellis, Freya Ellis