The Happy Lands is a 2012 British film written by Peter Cox and Robert Rae about a coal-mining community in Fife, Scotland, during the general strike of 1926.
Many of the cast members were amateurs who had no previous acting experience, and are relatives to the real-life miners involved in the historical strike.
The film begins with a miner suffering a back injury at a colliery in the fictional village of Carhill.
The rest of the film shows the various stages of the eight-month strike by coal miners across Britain, including the general strike launched by the Trade Union Congress in support of the miners.
The film makes several references to the First World War, in which many of the striking miners fought and were rewarded for their bravery.