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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, leave India in 1963 attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London. It comes as a shock for both the Sharmas and the residents of a small Welsh coal-mining village when they are assigned there instead.
5) Deep Down
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beverly and Terry grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources? While Beverly organizes her neighbors to stop Miller Brothers Coal from advancing into her hollow, Terry considers signing away the mining rights to his...
7) Pit pony
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Willie MacLean and his family live on Nova Scotia at the beginning of the twentieth century, working in the islands mines and adjusting to the technological changes coming to their home.
Series
Studio classic volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
10) Women in love
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A sensual investigation of the relationships of two couples, exploring the thin line between love and lust.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania ... a town of over 3,000 people. By the mid-1980s, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures in the ground ... Today, 11 die-hards remain" --dvd container.
12) The mine wars
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
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