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Gold Movie vs. the True Story of the Bre-X Gold …

Was the supposed gold find really located in a very remote region of a Borneo jungle? Yes. In 1995, the small Canadian mining company Bre-X claimed a massive gold find deep in the jungle in the …

The hell of Serra Pelada mines through photographs, 1980s

Serra Pelada was a large gold mine in Brazil 430 km south of the mouth of the Amazon River. In 1979 a local child found a 6 grams nugget of gold. ... but wish somebody make a documentary film and put it in Youtube or any other media, so people who are similar to my interest watch it. paul siemering March 21, 2018.

The Klondike Gold Rush (TV Movie 2015)

The Klondike Gold Rush: Directed by Douglas Arrowsmith. With Matty Finochio, L. Harvey Gold, Rory W. Tucker. Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. …

Idris' Descent Begins | Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba

Enter the lift of one of Canada's deepest mines with Idris Elba and begin your exploration into what goes on deep underground at the gold mine.

New documentary explores global impact of gold

A new documentary commissioned by the World Gold Council (WGC), titled Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba, delves into the historical and current relevance of gold around the world. The WGC stated it created the film to help a broad audience understand the impact of gold in society. Released in October, it has already garnered more than …

New documentary starring Idris Elba focuses on gold's …

In the documentary, movie star Elba explores the history of gold, as well as the relationships and impacts engendered from this precious metal – spanning from beauty, to health, community, power ...

films about mining

films about mining. by film-148-690757 • Created 9 years ago • Modified 9 years ... Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. ... Hard-hitting documentary on the effects of the radical and environmentally disastrous form of coal ...

'River of Gold' documentary available on streaming platforms

A documentary that examines the ecological, economic and human costs of small-scale gold mining operations in Peru is now available to rent on a variety of streaming platforms.

Peruvian Documentary MAXIMA Tells of One Woman's Battle Against Mining

A classic David-and-Goliath story, MAXIMA (2020) follows the plight of the documentary's eponymous hero, indigenous Peruvian farmer and activist, Máxima Acuña, in her battle to protect her land, water and dignity from the largest gold mining company in the world: the US-based Newmont Mining Corporation. Máxima and her family worked …

River of Gold Movie

Sarah is a producer and co-director of the award winning film River of Gold and the short documentary Mercury Uprising, both films about illicit and unregulated gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest. Her other film …

Jozi Gold

The film had its World Premiere at the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival in June 2019. The International Premiere will take place at CPH:DOX 2020. ... The Apartheid regime collapsed in the early 1990s along with gold output. The mines have left six billion tons of solid waste in surface dumps… 600,000 …

List of films about gold mining

Documentary film: Klondike: Simon Cellan Jones: English: Miniseries: 2015: The 33: Patricia Riggen: English, Spanish: 2016: Gold: Stephen Gaghan: English: 2018: ... List of films about gold mining. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

Mining Documentaries

The rhapsodic film King Coal blurs the lines of documentary and memorializes the coal culture that has shaped Appalachia. ... Timmins at the centre of new gold mining documentary – by Maija Hoggett (Northern Ontario Business – March 6, 2019) March 11, 2019.

Idris' Descent Begins | Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba

About the film. Explore Season 1. 7 stories. Gallery. Discovering Canada's LaRonde Mine. Explore one of the world's deepest single-shaft gold mines. Gallery.

New documentary explores global impact of gold

A new documentary commissioned by the World Gold Council (WGC), titled Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba, delves into the historical and current relevance of gold …

Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba | World Gold Council

From the 1800s Gold Rush stimulating early demand for Levi's jeans, to the recent production of a $1M gold bar in Canada and the quest for the new gold seams in …

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Australian geologist Mr Smith arrives at Thariode, British India for gold mining. Based on the 2019 documentary film "Thariode" by Nirmal Baby Varghese. Director: Nirmal Baby Varghese | Stars: Roger Ward, ... 1 - Gold mining techniques at Klondike from gold rush days to the 1970s using archival stills and footage. 2 - Filmed at Yukon ...

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The film reveals that glittering gold has a dark shadow. But it doesn't leave it there. We engage with engineers, scientists, and Fair-Trade advocates who work with miners to tackle gold's worst environmental and social …

Timmins at the centre of new gold mining documentary

With gold running deep through the region's veins, a new documentary is focussing on Timmins' rich history with the industry. Northern Gold is an original two-part documentary series debuting on TVO this week. "It is, in a nutshell, about the history of mining in Northern Ontario told through the lens of one mining town, Timmins, Ontario," …

Gold (2022)

Gold: Directed by Anthony Hayes. With Zac Efron, Akuol Ngot, Thiik Biar, Andreas Sobik. In the not too distant future, a drifter travelling through the desert discovers the largest gold nugget ever found. He must guard it from thieves amid harsh conditions and wild dogs while waiting for his partner to return.

The Shadow of Gold | Documentary Review

The Shadow of Gold. The brutality of gold mining is never truly considered when purchasing jewelry or gold bars by the average consumer. As many in the world …

Watch the Official Trailer | Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba

See excerpts from the upcoming, feature-length documentary, where Idris Elba takes you on a global journey of discovery, revealing the human story of gold. ... About the film. ... How gold is improving societies, mining safety, and more. Gallery.

South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

The miners often spend weeks underground, toiling away at the country's untapped gold reserves. Observers have suggested that illegal mining is now so widespread, black-market gold arguably supports the communities once subsistent on the very same mines they worked in before they shut down.

Shadow of a Giant: The Story of Yellowknife's Giant Mine

Shadow of a Giant is an interactive documentary that tells the story of one Canada's largest environmental disasters, Yellowknife's Giant Mine. Buried in collapsing chambers, within the municipal boundary of Yellowknife, and beside the ninth largest lake in the world, sits 237,000 tons of the highly toxic contaminant, arsenic xide, a byproduct …

Goldfathers

This past summer in Alaska, three gold mining "families" battled nature, machines and each other in a brutal race against time to try and get as much gold from the ground as possible before the icy, frost of winter …

Bre-X Gold Mining Scandal Documentary

Calgary-based Bre-X Minerals Ltd. was involved in a major mining scandal after the company reported it was sitting on an enormous gold find in Borneo. This documentary explores the rise and fall of Bre-X, including the key players involved in the scandal. The company's name was changed to Washoe for the movie Gold starring …

Gold (2016)

With Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll. Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the …

The 12 Best Documentaries About Gold

In Canada, Elba travels 3.2 km underground to witness how ore is mined, and on the surface, observes the separation of gold from the ore via chemical extraction …

Guardians of Eternity | confronting Giant Mine's toxic legacy

Guardians of Eternity is a documentary film about the toxic legacy of an abandoned gold mine in northern Canada. The Giant Mine is closed now, but the mess that has been left behind will be with us forever. ... The Giant Mine produced 7 million ounces of gold over a period of 55 years. The companies that controlled the mine made $1.1 billion ...

Dying for Gold (2018)

Dying for Gold: Directed by Catherine Meyburgh, Richard Pakleppa. For over 120 years hundreds of thousands of black men from the countries of Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce the wealth of South Africa. Today these mining communities face severe poverty and the world's greatest epidemic of silicosis …