BFI Screenonline: Education: Show and Tell

Show and Tell

A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (1910)

In each edition of Show and Tell , we offer one film to a range of teachers to explore in different subject areas.

For this edition, we asked our contributors to look at an early non-fiction, 'instructional' film A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (1910), which offers a glimpse of the work done my men and women at the coal face and pit head.

You can browse through previous months' Show and Tell by following the links below.

A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (1910)

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Award-winning short in which a gang of youths hunt foxes though an urban jungle.	An unsettling animation that conveys Cold War nuclear anxiety.	A touching tale of black/white childhood friendship.	An extraordinarily vivid and energetic transport film.	Evocative documentary capturing a day in the life of Waterloo station.

Ridley Scott's poetic debut, following a schoolboy (brother Tony) cycling round Hartlepool.	Bold modern-day adaptation, with Othello as the Met's first black Chief Constable.	Attractive short 1960s cartoon with a clear political message.