"10/10! Miners' Hymns is not only showing what happened, or what was recorded then, but also asking how any of us might see it. If mining is about digging and producing, struggling and surviving, the film is about how we conceive these themes, how films teach us to see. How do you understand depictions of the past, in so many contexts, alongside the present (your own present, someone else's), with knowledge of subsequent images, not to mention a certain sense of yourself, changed as you watch? How is history ever anything but what you receive, your trust or skepticism of seeming sources, a narrative reframed each moment by what you see next?"—Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters Editor and Film and Media Studies Program Director, George Mason University

"Enthralling! The hard, weathered faces that stare out of the past in "The Miners' Hymns" at times look as if they were carved from granite. There's [a] museological quality to The Miners' Hymns, an elegant, elegiac found-footage work from Bill Morrison… this is the real deal[.] A miner himself of a type, Mr. Morrison has dug into the archives of the likes of the British Film Institute to cull primarily black-and-white images so rich, so alive with dirty faces, shadows and the occasional pit pony that they resurrect a world that for many has long been lost to history."—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"An elegiac testament to the lost industrial culture of the Durham coalfields."—Nick Bradshaw, Sight & Sound

"The flickering figures of history as captured on film [are] creative fodder for Bill Morrison."—Nicolas Rapold, The Wall Street Journal

"Quite simply one of the best and most beautiful films of the year."—Huffington Post