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- Taken’ (2008) IMDb score: 7.8/10. What it’s about: Bryan Mills, a retired CIA agent, learns that his daughter was kidnapped while on vacation in Paris.
- Sound of Freedom’ (2023) IMDb score: 7.7/10. What it’s about: ‘Sound of Freedom’ is a movie based on the true story of a federal agent who decided to take matters into his own hands and put his life on the line, becoming a vigilante, trying to save hundreds of children from slavery and sex trafficking.
- Eastern Promises’ (2007) IMDb score: 7.6/10. What it’s about: Tatiana – a pregnant teenager – walks into a London hospital, bleeding. She dies, but they manage to save the baby.
- Trade’ (2007) IMDb score: 7.3/10. What it’s about: Jorge is a 17-year-old criminal living in Mexico City, doing what he does to help support his mother and younger sister.
- Rescuing Children From The Sex Trade. Rescuing Children From The Sex Trade is a powerful documentary exploring the dark world of child abuse taking place in Filipino sex bars.
- Nefarious: Merchant of Souls. Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is an eye-opening documentary that shines a light on the horrific and wide-reaching consequences of modern-day slavery.
- Secrets Of The Multi-Billion Dollar Human Trafficking Industry – Sex Slaves. Secrets of the multi-billion dollar human trafficking industry have been exposed in Sex Slaves, a powerful documentary exploring the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.
- Stolen Innocence India’s Untold Story of Human Trafficking. The heartbreaking documentary, Stolen Innocence India’s Untold Story of Human Trafficking, is a harrowing look at the plight of young girls who are stolen from their homes and forced into a life of sex slavery.
- Brides and Brothels: The Rohingya Trade
- Sex Trafficking in America
- By The Name of Tania
- Food Chains
- Ghost Fleet
- The Dark Side of Chocolate
- The Apology
- Children of War
- Machines
From: Al Jazeera English | Available on: Youtube After escaping Myanmar’s brutal military, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya girls and women seek safety in Bangladesh. However, the refugee camps are anything but safe. This 25-minute documentary from Al Jazeera English centers on what happens in those camps that shelter almost a million refugees. Fa...
Directed by: Jezza Neumann | Available on: PBS Frontline Filmed over three years, this 54-minute documentary from PBS Frontline takes a look at sex trafficking in the United States. At 16, Kat was kidnapped and trafficked by men she met online. Through her story, the film explores how victims are chosen, groomed, and sold. In the documentary, Kat s...
Directed by: Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez | Available on: Tubi While technically not a documentary, this film is based on eyewitness accounts. While working on other projects in Peru, the filmmakers encountered stories of poverty, trafficking, and other traumas. “Tania” is a composite character created using real stories. In the film, Tania t...
Directed by: Sanjay Rawal | Available on: Amazon Prime (to rent) In Florida, migrant farmworkers spend hours in the fields picking vegetables and fruit for huge food corporations. The manual labor is hard enough, but farmworkers are frequently exploited, sexually abused, and harmed in a myriad of other ways. While supermarkets make trillions of dol...
Directed by: Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron | Available on: Apple TV, Prime Video, Tubi With a premiere at TIFF in 2018, this documentary focuses on the slave trade that powers Indonesia’s seafood industry and a group of activists committed to changing it. Being responsible for a huge part of the world’s seafood supply is a tall order, but the...
Directed by: Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano | Available on: Youtube Fresh produce and seafood aren’t the only food industries affected by trafficking. For decades, slavery has fueled the chocolate industry. Places like West Africa are especially dependent on child labor for their cocoa production. The film begins in Germany with questions to v...
Directed by: Tiffany Hsiung | Available on: Tubi and Amazon Prime (rental) During WWII, the Imperial Japanese Army forced around 200,000 women and girls into sexual slavery. Known as “comfort women,” these women were kept at “comfort stations” that Japanese soldiers visited when they needed a sexual outlet. Japanese women were among the first victi...
Directed by: Brian Single | Available on: Kanopy (with a public library card or university login) The Lord’s Resistance Army, a militant group led by Joseph Kony, has been accused of human rights violations like murder, child-sex slavery, mutilation, and using child soldiers since 1987. While not as active today, the group leaves behind a long lega...
Directed by: Rahul Jain| Available on: Amazon Prime (rental), Apple TV Sweatshops are dangerous, exploitative, and responsible for producing many of the clothes we wear today. In this documentary, Ruhal Jain gains access to one of the thousands of textile mills in Suchin, India. Viewers witness the dehumanizing practices, dangerous conditions, and ...
2021 · 1 hr 14 min. TV-MA. Action · Thriller. Tiffany Cooper, disgraced by the military, wanted by the cops, and running out of time, stops at nothing to take down a human trafficking operation. Subtitles: English.
- Shaun M. Mathis
- January 1, 2021
- 74 min
Jul 30, 2019 · To mark the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, we revisit some of our best documentaries to shed light on the issue. We speak to victims and go undercover to investigate ...
Aug 29, 2023 · Let’s Go to the Movies: A List of Human Trafficking Movies Compiled by Survivors. Posted on August 29, 2023. In response to the Sound of Freedom movie, survivors of human trafficking have compiled a list of movies exploring broader aspects of trafficking that are often overlooked.
Speak For Freedom, a London-based non-profit organization, works in many areas including monitoring sex trafficking in order to assist authorities in stopping it. Daniel Appleton, one of its employees, gets involved in trying to save the Visinescus.
