Coal Face (1935)

Directed by

Alberto Cavalcanti

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary shows the daily lives of coal miners in a Yorkshire community. It focuses on the difficult and hazardous conditions they endure at work.

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What happens

Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film gives a glimpse into the lives of a Yorkshire mining community and the dangerous working conditions the miners routinely faced. The film largely reuses older footage from Tour of a British Coal Mine (1928), which was shot in Barnsley, Yorkshire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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