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Numerous videos and feature-length films address the different forms of human trafficking. This list contains links and descriptions of over 40 films dedicated to this topic. IHTI also has the rights to a selection of films on human trafficking. If you or your organization would like more information on these films, please contact us at ihti@civilandhumanrights.org. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Year	Title	Duration	Description	Free access?
2002	Anonymously Yours	1 hour 30 min	Documents widespread abuse and exploitation of women through sexual slavery in Myanmar	No – order at BerkeleyMedia
2012	At the End of Slavery	34 minutes	Looks at the business side of trafficking from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India	No – order at The End of Slavery
2005	Bangkok Girl	43 minutes	About sex tourism in Bangkok	No – order at Amazon
2006	Black Gold	1 hour 18 min	Follows the efforts of an Ethiopian Coffee Union manager as he travels the world to obtain a better price for his workers’ coffee beans	No – order https://www.fandor.com/films/black_gold
2004	Born into Brothels	1 hour 23 min	Documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata’s red light district	No – order Amazon
1999	Bought and Sold	42 minutes	Documentary based on a two-year undercover investigation conducted by Global Survival Network into the illegal trafficking of women from the Former Soviet Republics. The film features interviews with traffickers, Russian mafia, trafficked women, and groups working to provide services to trafficked women.	Yes – at YouTube
2008	Call and Response	1 hour 26 min	Fair Trade Pictures film to support human rights activism against human trafficking and slavery on a community level	No – order at Media in a Free World
2008	Cargo: Innocence Lost	1 hour 15 min	Look at sex trafficking through interviews with some of the country’s top officials on the subject, victims’ advocates and victims themselves, who were rescued in Texas	No – order at Amazon
2013	Chosen	20 min	Sex trafficking prevention video and resource package for youth	No – order at Shared Hope
2010	Dark Side of Chocolate, The	47 minutes	Documentary film about the exploitation and trafficking of African children to harvest chocolate	Yes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vfbv6hNeng
2003	Day My God Died, The	1 hour 10 min	Presents the stories of young girls trafficked into the child sex trade	No – order at PBS
2012	Demand	45 minutes	Commercial sex market	Yes – at YouTube
2005	Dreams Die Hard	36 minutes	Profiles people trapped in slavery across the United States and highlights the survivors’ passion for freedom and justice	Yes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myBQ-jM5dUk
2003	Dying to Leave	2 hours	Looks at the circumstances that drove five migrants from their homes, describes the difficulties involved in their journeys, and reveals their lives in a new world	No – order at RoninFilms
2013	Fighters, The	1 hour 19 min	Anti-trafficking efforts in the Philippines	Yes – at CNN
2006	Freedom and Beyond	24 minutes	Story of hope and promise, interviews boys recently rescued in northern India	Yes – at Culture Unplugged
1997	Girls from Chaka Street	15 minutes	Deals with the flourishing sex industry in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia	No – order at BullFrogFilms
2011	Indoctrinated: The Grooming of our Children into Prostitution	33 minutes	Documentary film about child sex trafficking in San Diego County. This film exposes the scope and destructive nature of child sex trafficking and uncovers the tactics used by pimps and gangs to recruit, groom, psychologically coerce and indoctrinate their victims into a life of sexual exploitation and violence	Yes – http://vimeo.com/53083437#at=0
2006	Invisible Children: Rough Cut	55 minutes	Depicts the human rights abuses by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda	Yes – http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/invisible-children/
2012	Journey to Freedom	40 minutes	Documentary that brings to life the similarities between historic slavery and trafficking	Yes – http://freedomcenter.org/enabling-freedom/journey-to-freedom
2012	MTV EXIT	25 minutes	Videos to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking	Yes – http://mtvexit.org/wooyoung/
2010	Not My Life	1 hour 20 min	Documented human trafficking in 13 countries: Albania, Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Italy, Nepal, Romania, Senegal, Uganda, and the United States	No – order http://notmylifeactioncenter.com/
2003	Peacekeepers and the Women, The	1 hour 20 min	Examines the booming sex trafficking industry in Bosnia and Kosovo and explores the disturbing role of the UN peacekeeping forces and the local military in perpetuating this situation	No – order at WMM
2009	Playground: The Child Sex Trade in America	1 hour 18 min	Sex trade of children	No – order http://campaign13.org/playground-the-film/
2011	Price of Sex	1 hour 11 min	Documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into sex trafficking and abuse	No – order at WMM
2007	Price of Sugar, The	1 hour 30 min	Exploitation of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic involved with production of sugar and the efforts of Spanish priest Father Christopher Hartley to ameliorate their situation	Yes – at YouTube
2009	Redlight	1 hour 12 min	Documentary about child sex exploitation	No – order http://redlightchildren.org/about-the-films/
2010	Road to Traffik, The	12 minutes	Sex trafficking film produced by Lucy Liu	Yes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXbBJOgEgRM
2007	Sacrifice	50 minutes	Examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand	No – order http://www.brunofilms.com/films/sacrifice/
2011	Sex + Money: A National Search for Human Worth	1 hour 32 min	Documentary about domestic minor sex trafficking and the modern-day abolitionist movement	No – order at SexAndMoney Store
2005	Sex Slaves	1 hour	Documentary inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc	Yes – http://vimeo.com/14944657
2006	Silent Revolution, The	18 minutes	Follows a group of stone-breakers as they challenge the slaveholders, are burned out of their homes by the slaveholder’s thugs, are imprisoned and finally win the right to run their own quarry and start a new village	Yes – at Free The Slaves
2012	Slavery: A 21st Century Evil	8 25 min episodes	Various types of trafficking – videos by Al Jazeera	Yes – at Al Jazeera
2001	Slavery: A Global Investigation	1 hour 20 min	Exposes slavery in the rug-making sector of Northwest India, the cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, and even the home of a World Bank official in Washington, D.C.	Yes – at Vimeo
2007	Sold Children – Albania	10 minutes	Child organ trafficking	Yes – at YouTube
2004	Svetlana’s Journey	40 minutes	Child sex trafficking in Bulgaria	No – order Amazon
2011	There is No Place for You Here	16 minutes	Child labor in Ghanaian gold mines	Yes – Vimeo
2003	Tin Girls	55 minutes	Child sex trafficking in Nepal and India	n/a
2014	Trade in Hope		Documentary film about domestic sex trafficking in America and what a community is doing to stop it	Yes – Trade In Hope
2002	Trading Women	1 hour 17 min	Covers human trafficking of girls from hill tribes in Burma, Laos, Thailand and China into the sex industry of Thailand	No – order at DER
2005	Trafficked	52 minutes	Tells the story of former Australian Federal Police Officer Chris Payne’s ongoing investigation into the fate of two young Thai girls trafficked to Australia	No – order at AcamedicVideo Store
2007	Trapped	52 minutes	Sex trafficking	Yes – at YouTube
2007	Very Young Girls	1 hour 23 minutes	Documentary of prostitution and sex slavery in New York City	Yes – at Documentary Heaven
2008	Virgin Harvest	1 hour 52 min	Child sex trafficking in Cambodia	n/a
2008	War Child	1 hour 34 min	Documentary about former child soldier Emmanuel Jal	No – order at Amazon

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