Slavery/Human Trafficking
Documentaries, biographical dramas, and fictionalized dramas depicting slavery over the course of human history all around the world. This includes dehumanizing men, women, and children in many different ways.
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/what-human-trafficking
*Kanopy & Hoopla are available through your local library account.
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/what-human-trafficking
*Kanopy & Hoopla are available through your local library account.
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- DirectorZana BriskiRoss KauffmanStarsKochiAvijit HalderShanti DasTwo documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- DirectorRobert MarcarelliA two-part documentary on the global problem of human trafficking and the modern-day abolitionists who are fighting it based on the book, Not For Sale, by David Batstone.
- DirectorJoel SandvosStarsBridget BrewsterDon BrewsterClayton ButlerAfter selling herself at fourteen to a brothel inside her home town of Svay Pak, Mien takes an undesired path all over Cambodia for the remainder of her teenage life. At twenty, her path crosses with a group of people fighting to make a difference, bringing her long and onerous journey back to face where it all began. The Pink Room is an intertwined story of the heart-rending, epic battle to end sex slavery, from rescue to prevention, and experiencing first hand, the need to change not just individuals, but the communities they come from. Most documentaries on trafficking only bring awareness to the problem. This film bring awareness to the solutions.Amazon Prime, Hoopla, Kanopy
- DirectorTed HaddockStarsDanny GloverIn a world where 27 million children, women and men live as modern-day slaves, the fight for justice cannot wait. At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in Our Time takes you inside the violent and ugly business of slavery, from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India. Undercover footage, first-person testimony from former slaves and respected experts expose the enormity of the crime, but a remarkable strategy and the courage of today's abolitionists offer hope for a final end to this brutal trade. At the End of Slavery is a clarion call to every viewer to join the movement to end slavery in our lifetime. A film alone cannot end slavery, but together we can.
- DirectorNoah LamberthDavid TrotterStarsNatalie GrantIN PLAIN SIGHT: Stories of Hope and Freedom is a feature-length documentary focused on six modern-day abolitionists as they fight sex trafficking across America. Journeying to six US cities, the film opens the viewer's eyes to what's happening down the street "in plain sight". Through engaging interviews with numerous victims of sex trafficking, the force, coercion, and deception of the children and women becomes apparent. In the midst of the darkness, stories of hope and freedom emerge as each survivor shares how she was impacted through the work of a sex trafficking aftercare home.
- DirectorBenjamin NolotMatt DickeyStarsChristian SimpsonJon Morgan WoodwardChad T. WoodA documentary exploring the sex-trade.
- DirectorJohn Keith WassonJane WellsStarsDanielle DouglasSlimRainThis character-driven film considers the evolving sex trafficking landscape as seen by the main players: the exploited, the pimps, the johns that fuel the business, and the cops who fight to stop it.Kanopy, Netflix
- DirectorRobert BilheimerRichard YoungStarsGlenn CloseNot My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor,sex tourism,sexual exploitation,and child soldiering.
- DirectorAdi EzroniGuy JacobsonCharles KiselyakStarsSomaly MamReenaSokhaA powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories of young Cambodian victims and two remarkable advocates for change: grass-roots activist Somaly Mam and politician Mu Sochua. Both have since been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize. The filmmakers Guy Jacobson and Adi Ezroni won the prestigious Global Hero Award for their work in Cambodia. Using gritty footage smuggled out of brothels and harrowing testimonials, REDLIGHT follows the plight of several current and former child sex slaves. Some are trying to regain entry into Cambodian society to find some semblance of normality after their horrific experiences. Other stories highlight the plight of victims who are attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. Their torturous yet ultimately heroic battles to find witnesses and take brothel owners to court are dramatically brought to life in this topical and moving feature documentary.
- DirectorMimi ChakarovaStarsMimi ChakarovaA documentary about young Eastern European women who've been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by survivors; a film that gives a voice to women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and intimidation. Mimi Chakarova, a photojournalist who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal, investigative journey into the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to Turkey, Dubai and Greece. Told through the personal accounts of trafficked women, undercover footage, and still photography, this documentary exposes the root causes of why women continue to be sold into prostitution against their will and examines what can be done to stop it.Kanopy
- DirectorJared BrockMichelle BrockAs nations around the globe attempt to fight sex trafficking, many consider legalizing prostitution. Two filmmakers travel to ten countries to explore the issue, in an attempt to answer the question of how we can prevent sexual exploitation before it happens in the first place. Though governments are getting better at prosecuting traffickers and providing aftercare to victims, it is time we begin to ask the question of what lies at the root.Tubi
- DirectorChristopher M. BessetteStarsDermot MulroneyMira SorvinoJohn BillingsleyA couple grieving the loss of their own daughter set out to rescue young girls sold into the sex slave trade.Hoopla, Kanopy, Netflix
- DirectorJoel AngyalStarsMorgan PerryAutumn Rae MasonSarah-Jo SampsonSex+Money is a feature length documentary that follows a group of students as they travel across the USA, seeking to understand how the sexual exploitation of children has become the nation's fasting growing form of organized crime.
- DirectorDavid SchisgallNina AlvarezStarsLaura GuzmanRachel LloydA former sexually exploited woman started the GEMS organization to help young victims escape their pimps and find another way of life.
- DirectorFrancois DriessenStarsJayson MacDonaldKathy QuayleSteve ScottWillful Entrapment explores the paradox between psychotic addiction and the perception of innocent fun. Alan Gerd has a flippant brush with online pornographic content via social media, and soon finds himself progressively haunted by an invisible force that seeks to destroy him and those he cares about.
- DirectorJon Van DykeStarsCody LongoLeo SolomonJohn SchneiderWhile on vacation with friends in Hyderabad, India, Caden Welles - a privileged young man with the world at his disposal - takes an unexpected turn in life after initially refusing to help a starving man and his daughter.
- DirectorJustin DillonStarsMadeleine AlbrightKevin BalesDavid BatstoneFair Trade Pictures to support human rights activism against human trafficking and slavery on a community level.
- DirectorBrandon McCormickStarsDoug JonesMattie LiptakAbigail MonetThe film is a Fairytale/Parable about the child sex trafficking epidemic that has overrun our city of Atlanta. We are using the film to not only raise awareness but provoke meaningful action towards this issue taking place in our own backyard.
- DirectorMegan GriffithsStarsJamie ChungBeau BridgesMatt O'LearyA young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, cooperates with her captors in a desperate ploy to survive.
- DirectorMaro ChermayeffStarsAmerica FerreraNicholas KristofDiane LaneHALF THE SKY is a passionate call-to-arms, urging us not only to bear witness to the plight of the world's women, but to help to transform their oppression into opportunity. Our future is in the hands of women everywhere.Hoopla, Vudu
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsIoan GruffuddAlbert FinneyMichael GambonThe idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
- DirectorBrian GurleyStarsRobyn LivelyLori Beth SikesWilliam McNamaraThe inspiring and compelling story of how one woman risks everything to help a sex trafficked victim out of the world of slavery and into a world with a future and a hope of fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a real dancer.Amazon Prime
- DirectorMiki MistratiU. Roberto RomanoStarsDiamoutene BakaryDavid BatesonHenri BleminAt cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, children aged from 7 to 15 years old, with the promise of paid work, are forced into slave labour. Does the world know about the dark side of chocolate?
- DirectorAndrew LevineStarsAnuradha KoiralaTim RobbinsWinona RyderFilmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex slave trade. The film provides actual footage from inside the brothels of Bombay, known even to the tourists as "The Cages," captured with "spy camera" technology. The documentary also introduces the heroes of the movement who are working to abolish child sex slavery and who remind us that, "these are our daughters."