Coal Face is a 1935 British documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti.

With a film score by Benjamin Britten[1] and a poem written and narrated by W.H.

Auden,[2] 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.

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