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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/7240/
82
/232/
75
/110/
4.3
/22626/
100
/22/
92
/186/
80
/5/
cc age 15+

Harlan County U.S.A. (1977)
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
7.9
/17380/
76
/346/
78
/354/
4.3
/37507/
98
/57/
90
/279/
93
/9/

Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.8
/14307/
77
/437/
76
/402/
4.2
/45988/
99
/144/
89
/57/
94
/23/

Faces Places (2017)
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/67579/
74
/1374/
75
/1106/
4.1
/149233/
94
/66/
89
/1295/
94
/20/
cc age 14+

Days of Heaven (1978)
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
poster
Disney Plus
83
8.0
/17038/
79
/2127/
76
/955/
3.7
/52559/
100
/8/
91
/246/

Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters.
poster
The Roku Channel
83
7.9
/18850/
77
/472/
77
/274/
3.9
/14185/
100
/23/
91
/474/
cc age 10+

A Night to Remember (1958)
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
poster
83
7.6
/28419/
75
/381/
74
/407/
4.0
/35992/
98
/97/
90
/375/
84
/29/

The Man Without a Past (2002)
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
poster
Netflix
82
7.8
/110390/
78
/8272/
74
/2637/
4.1
/596541/
99
/253/
89
/1262/
88
/38/
cc age 6+

Paddington 2 (2017)
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
poster
81
7.7
/28582/
76
/534/
73
/433/
4.1
/30816/
93
/88/
81
/445/
88
/17/
cc age 10+

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
poster
80
7.9
/52162/
76
/856/
76
/671/
4.0
/26881/
89
/28/
90
/700/
49
/30/

Sleuth (1972)
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
poster
80
7.8
/109498/
78
/2800/
77
/1358/
3.8
/128475/
90
/72/
88
/3009/
71
/23/
cc age 10+

October Sky (1999)
Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However, in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, goes into orbit. When Homer sees the Soviet satellite streak overhead, he becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With the help of his friends, and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town, and especially Homer's father, thinks that they are wasting their time. Only one teacher understands their efforts and lets them know that they could become contenders in the national science fair with college scholarships being the prize. Now the gang must learn to perfect their craft and overcome the many problems facing them as they shoot for the stars.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.2
/4439/
72
/80/
75
/114/
3.9
/6304/
92
/53/
76
/89/
80
/16/

The Four Times (2010)
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/8922/
74
/668/
71
/348/
3.7
/13958/
97
/59/
77
/74/
85
/17/
cc age 9+

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
poster
79
7.7
/150109/
77
/4245/
76
/3980/
4.1
/308833/
85
/119/
89
/5379/
74
/34/
cc age 13+

Billy Elliot (2000)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
poster
Hulu
78
6.7
/32904/
67
/1663/
66
/407/
3.5
/138621/
93
/122/
81
/92/
82
/28/
cc age 13+

Small Things Like These (2024)
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/808/
76
/20/
69
/11/
3.5
/1111/
88
/26/
78
/1/
71
/12/

Makala (2017)
Kabwita, a young man living with his wife and daughters in Kolwezi, a town in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, dreams of buying land to build a house. To do so, he produces charcoal (makala), extracted from the ashes of a mighty hardwood tree. Carrying the sacks of charcoal on the back of his bicycle, he embarks on a dangerous journey to sell them on the market.
poster
Kanopy
80
78
7.5
/14203/
76
/316/
70
/204/
4.0
/15281/
89
/9/
91
/581/
78
/11/

Scum (1979)
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
poster
78
7.5
/21886/
75
/572/
72
/271/
3.7
/14018/
84
/63/
86
/890/
84
/7/
cc age 14+

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.4
/294356/
72
/11209/
75
/5317/
4.0
/1391904/
90
/397/
72
/413/
83
/51/
cc age 16+

The Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
75
7.5
/9545/
75
/374/
69
/147/
3.5
/8359/
100
/13/
74
/365/
72
/6/
cc age 8+

A Christmas Carol (1938)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
poster
73
8.0
/72762/
80
/1513/
82
/2367/
4.0
/33183/
58
/40/
91
/1388/
58
/28/

The Legend of 1900 (1998)
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.5
/25975/
66
/1157/
69
/620/
3.1
/102808/
70
/256/
85
/12/
72
/41/
cc age 16+

Ammonite (2020)
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
7.1
/6052/
71
/188/
67
/336/
3.5
/8746/
75
/12/
76
/38/

Germinal (1993)
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
poster
Hoopla
72
7.2
/21962/
72
/370/
69
/291/
3.6
/11131/
79
/48/
79
/427/
60
/19/
cc age 15+

Brassed Off (1996)
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
71
7.5
/8891/
74
/153/
70
/231/
3.8
/10306/
94
/17/
82
/88/

La Bête Humaine (1938)
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
poster
71
7.4
/11837/
74
/608/
69
/211/
3.4
/8961/
72
/661/

A Christmas Carol (1999)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
poster
70
7.2
/7612/
71
/154/
67
/136/
3.7
/4257/
67
/9/
84
/117/

Emperor of the North (1973)
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
poster
Netflix
70
6.4
/23047/
68
/1937/
71
/944/
3.1
/62023/
92
/64/
66
/187/
68
/14/
cc age 8+

The Willoughbys (2020)
When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
poster
70
7.1
/1379/
72
/31/
61
/25/
3.6
/1346/
67
/27/
66
/28/

The Spirit of '45 (2013)
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
poster
69
7.3
/3831/
70
/69/
60
/37/
3.4
/857/
74
/88/
77
/147/
63
/27/

Songcatcher (2001)
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.0
/21059/
73
/1506/
68
/838/
3.3
/17301/
79
/170/
78
/296/
60
/32/
cc age 8+

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
poster
Kanopy
70
68
6.7
/10224/
65
/351/
64
/295/
3.6
/16674/
96
/26/
61
/36/
70
/8/

Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
poster
79
67
7.6
/3067/
74
/60/
74
/65/
3.8
/1613/
95
/40/
86
/59/
78
/15/

Blind Shaft (2003)
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
poster
73
67
7.8
/13124/
73
/181/
69
/156/
3.7
/3921/
63
/19/
81
/179/

The Island (2006)
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
poster
Kanopy
67
7.3
/24248/
73
/405/
73
/339/
3.6
/10149/
52
/84/
81
/838/
54
/32/
cc age 15+

Angela's Ashes (1999)
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
poster
80
66
7.6
/2946/
80
/32/
72
/47/
3.9
/1547/
89
/9/
91
/580/
78
/11/

Scum (1977)
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.
poster
Netflix
66
7.2
/195680/
73
/6651/
74
/4268/
3.6
/168837/
53
/230/
70
/2567/
59
/48/
cc age 14+

Unbroken (2014)
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
poster
Hulu
65
7.5
/8554/
62
/259/
58
/122/
3.5
/5973/
77
/84/
39
/39/
69
/20/
cc age 10+

I Am Greta (2020)
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
poster
64
6.3
/15186/
65
/255/
58
/185/
3.0
/5393/
62
/123/
49
/417/
67
/32/

Young Adam (2003)
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
7.1
/40408/
73
/2316/
71
/863/
3.4
/40332/
53
/165/
70
/331/
56
/40/
cc age 14+

The Glass Castle (2017)
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
poster
Netflix
63
7.0
/90653/
73
/6114/
71
/2301/
3.0
/126288/
67
/61/
76
/559/
52
/10/
cc age 10+

The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
63
8.0
/3671/
75
/73/
75
/123/
4.1
/5532/
90
/10/
89
/18/

The Organizer (1963)
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
poster
63
6.6
/34365/
67
/1203/
65
/691/
3.4
/50796/
67
/39/
62
/699/
54
/13/

Psycho II (1983)
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
poster
Disney Plus
71
62
7.3
/2554/
73
/287/
69
/82/
3.3
/5044/
77
/36/
cc age 5+

Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2011)
Lanny and Wayne are at it again! With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to recover classified North Pole technology which has fallen into the hands of a computer-hacking Naughty Kid! Desperate to prevent Christmas from descending into chaos, Wayne seeks out the foremost Naughty Kid expert to aid in the mission: a bombastic member of the Coal Bucket Brigade who also happens to be his estranged brother, Noel.
poster
JustWatchTV
72
61
7.5
/5415/
69
/134/
69
/112/
3.8
/6900/

The Docks of New York (1928)
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
61
6.2
/24055/
62
/506/
57
/352/
2.9
/8647/
50
/167/
50
/1722/
53
/41/
cc age 14+

Vanity Fair (2004)
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
poster
60
6.3
/1736/
54
/41/
55
/45/
3.3
/2369/
63
/8/

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.
poster
70
60
7.3
/16470/
68
/166/
67
/72/
3.2
/2577/
82
/30/

Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001)
Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the shock of their lives when Sakina learns that her father (Amrish Puri), whom she previously believed died in the riots back in Amritsar, is still alive after seeing his picture in a tattered, old newspaper. Upon contacting him, Sakina's father, now the mayor of Lahore in Pakistan, arranges for his daughter to arrive in Lahore to see him. Sakina leaves for Lahore minus Tara and her son, and upon reaching the city, learns of her father's plans for her - plans that include forcing Sakina to forget about her family and start life anew in Pakistan. Then begins an extraordinary journey which will lead Tara to cross the border into Pakistan to find his love Sakina


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