Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Marc Simonnet | France | 1999 | 52 mn
In Antiquity, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Persians or the Romans, in spite of poor quality stones due to very rudimentary polishing techniques, fervently sought the emerald for the magic, sexual, medical or social virtues that they attributed...
Jean-Luc Bouvret | France | 1999 | 50 mn
Can a mining company flatten a hill that shelters a "sacred" aborigine site in order to exploit a deposit of zinc ? This documentary raises the question of the defence of a cultural heritage faced with private economic interests. A scientific...
Louis Volont | Belgique | 1999 | 12 mn
Seraing. A Walloon industrialised landscape. In these factories, workers transformed the iron ore that made fridges, cans and cars... But although the factory gave the worker the chance to earn a living, it could also take it from him... What...
Pascal Le Roy, Bruno Moncel, Jean-Paul Rebeaud | France | 1998 | 30 mn
The film deals with the history of the Stephanian coal basin, 300 millions years ago, when coal was forming. It intends to put this raw material back into an equatorial geological environment in the heart of a high mountains range through...
Jean-Michel Carré | France | 1998 | 90 mn
In 1994, an economist decision by British Coal to close "Tower Colliery" in Aberdare (South Wales), convinced its miners boasting a generationally long history of political activism, that what they had was worth fighting for. In unanimous vote to...
Pascal Bonafoux | France | 1998 | 24 mn
Gold, silver and stones made Banska Stiavnica one of the richest towns in central Europe. Over the centuries a real anthology of the architectural forms invented in Europe came together, while the engineers drew up examplary mining...
Sophie Audier | France | 1998 | 58 mn
In Haut-Var, Dominique Guipponi, a coalman from father to son, passes the small scale production of charcoal on to the team of forest workers of the national office of the forests of Comps. Here is the portrait of that man, drawn on a day-to-day...
Pierre Desfons | France | 1998 | 62 mn
Some people have extraordinary destinies. One of them is Maurice Thorez, a worker from the North who, in a sense, met History. A miner, he remained attached to the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. He lived in his "country" from 1900 to 1928. When he...
Jean-Louis Accettone | France | 1998 | 53 mn
A mining town is looked at today ; and it is talked about by the inhabitants. Far from being a contemplative vision of the mine, the representation of the town shows the transmission of memory, the critical point of view of the elders who have...
Jean-François Ternay | France | 1998 | 16 mn
The centre of the earth is essentially made up of liquid iron. The rotation of our planet creates movements in this liquid mass which conducts electricity and so it generates the earth’s magnetic field. Scientists have noted that this magnetic...