キーワード Mining Town

舞台は19世紀末の英国ウェールズ。一家全員が炭坑で働く貧しい家に育った少年の眼を通して、不幸と貧困に苛まれながらも人生を生き抜く人々の力強さを描いた、感動のヒューマン・ストーリー。主演はウォルター・ピジョン、モーリン・オハラら。

都会のシドニーから何もない田舎町へ単身赴任でやってきた小学校教師のジョン・グラントは、クリスマス休暇で恋人に会うためシドニーに帰る途中、とある町に一泊することになる。町の住民たちのもてなしでビールを浴びるように飲んだジョンは、狂乱のギャンブルやカンガルー狩りの興奮にも魅了され、そのまま町に1週間滞在することになるが……。

雪深い鉱山の町を舞台に、共同経営の商売を始める流れ者の賭博師と売春婦を描いた、W・ベイティ×J・クリスティ共演、鬼才R・アルトマン監督による異色の西部劇。 雪深い北西部の鉱山町にやって来た賭博師マッケイブが、坑夫相手の女郎屋の建設を始める。女たちを引き連れてきたミラー夫人と共同経営することになた宿屋は好評を博するが、この地に新たな鉱脈がある見込んだ不動産業者が店の買収に現れた……。

無法者に牛耳られた西部の町で、市民たちが彼らの支配から逃れるために虐殺を開始する。牢にいたギャンブラー、売春婦、黒人の墓堀り人夫、アル中の四人は殺す価値もないクズとして粗末な馬車を与えられ町を追放される。

昭和40年（1965年）、大幅な規模縮小に追い込まれた福島県いわき市の常磐炭鉱。危機的状況の中、炭鉱で働く人々が職場を失う現実・苦悩に立ち向かい、町おこし事業として立ち上げた常磐ハワイアンセンター（現：スパリゾートハワイアンズ）の誕生から成功までの実話を元に描いた。ハワイアンミュージックと本格的なフラダンスショーが描かれている。

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.

The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987. The series was a period drama created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland and starred Nerys Hughes as Megan Roberts, the titular district nurse fighting to improve living conditions for the people living in a poverty stricken mining town, Pencwm, in south Wales during the late 1920s. The School scenes were filmed at Pont-y-gof school in Ebbw Vale, shortly before the old school was demolished. The children and teachers at the school were involved in the first two series. The outdoor school and street scenes were filmed at a small village near Tredegar. Most of the houses used have now been demolished, however the street still remains. In the third series, shown in 1987 and set in the early 1930s, Megan had moved on to the seaside town of Glanmor where she worked with a father/son pair of doctors - Emlyn Isaacs and James Isaacs.

Sons and Lovers is a 1981 BBC television serial based on the D. H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers. It starred Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson and Lynn Dearth. It was adapted by Trevor Griffiths and directed by Stuart Burge. It aired in the US as part of the PBS's Masterpiece Theatre program in 1982.