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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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Interview with Ishmael Beah (run time – 6:29)
List of Documentaries
| 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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