Past Films

Written in the blood of mineworkers and their families, Blood on the Coal tells the story of Australias Queensland coalfields one of the worlds richest energy resources and for 150 years a bitter industrial battleground.

The film opens with a journey to Mt. Mulligan, a remote and now abandoned mining community in outback Queensland. In 1921 Mt. Mulligan was the siteof Queenslands worst mining disaster, when 75 men were killed in a coal mine explosion. A retired coal miner and his two daughters make the long journey in search of their familys past and to pay their respects to their lost loved ones. Wiping out two thirds of the towns male population, Mt. Mulligan sent a shock wave throughout Australias mining industry and began the long and bitterly fought path to improved safety and working conditions. But it would be decades before improvements began to filter through to the coal face.

Today's nuclear industry was born in a world of secrecy duringWorld War II, as America searched for a way to create the worlds first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, a process that would allow for the creation of the most powerful bombs ever built.The Manhattan Project was the code name for the mission, and it would lead to a search for someone who could refine massive amounts of uranium.

Edward Mallinckrodt Jr, who ran a small chemical company in St. Louis, Missouri, would agree to take on the job.The Mallinckrodt workers would become some of the most contaminated nuclear workers in history, and the city of St. Louis would be left dealing with the fallout of creating some of the worlds first nuclear waste 70 years later.The questions of how to best keep workers and the public safe from these dangerous materials is as challenging today as it was in the past.

Sometimes you cant have the things that you want in life, even if theyre just paper. After a young lady runs out of room in her notebook she sets out to find more paper. The simple task quickly turns into a madcap and surreal adventure as her efforts are thwarted at every turn.

After completing his medical training at Harvard, Phillip Burke becomes engaged before leaving to serve in the Army during the Civil War. He is captured early in the war, and as a Confederate prisoner he serves as a surgeon in a southern mansion owned by Josiah Wakefield. Josiah's son Malcolm has married Clarissa Giles and has provided an heir to his family, but he doesn't treathis wife with respect and prefers the comforts of his favorite slave instead. As war rages on, Malcolm leaves to join the fight. When the Union prisoner, Captain Burke, is brought to the Wakefield home hospital as a surgeon, he meets Clarissa. An immediate spark between the two causes Clarissa to insist on staying to help Captain Burke with the wounded soldiers. Although bound to other people on opposite sides of the war, Clarissa and Phillip can't help falling in love.