Gentleman Jack (2019)

Anne Lister is a landowner rather than a laborer, which is why this sits a little apart, but coal is the business at the center of it. Back in Halifax in 1832, she sets out to reopen her estate's long-closed mine and discovers the Rawson brothers are taking coal from beneath her land. The fight over seams, leases and who profits from the ground is as gripping as the romance. Sally Wainwright based it on Lister's own diaries, and Suranne Jones plays her as a one-woman industrial revolution. HBO cancelled it after two series, so expect loose ends.