

A Life at the Mill
2009, English. Directed by Jeanie Finlay.
A video portrait of eleven mill workers, past and present, living in and around the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire. The film details the important role that work played in their lives, how it felt; to clean a mill, to work all your life, to face retirement, to shut a mill down and make hundreds unemployed and the hole that was left behind.
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- 0h 50m
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- English
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- 1 January 2009
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A Life at the Mill runs 50 minutes (0h 50m).
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A Life at the Mill isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2009. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like A Life at the Mill?
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Who directed A Life at the Mill?
A Life at the Mill (2009) was directed by Jeanie Finlay.