Human Trafficking Themes: Fact and Fiction
Noah Project in Abilene, TX created this list for those wishing to learn about human trafficking. These films feature factual or fictionalized accounts of victims to help others understand this global issue.
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- DirectorKaren KramerIn Haiti, many parents in the countryside are forced by destitution and desperation to give away their children. As young as four years old, these children go to live and work for other families as full-time, unpaid, live-in servants, or slaves.
- DirectorSteven McGregorStarsLarissa BehrendtCheyenne CruseValerie LinowA confronting insight into the history and legacy of the domestic servitude enforced upon Aboriginal girls in Australia, told through the stories of five women and shot with admirable craft and humanity by documentarian Steven McGregor.
- DirectorAnja DalhoffNigeria is a hub for human trafficking, part of the $100 billion dollar sex trade. African women turned prostitutes spend years paying off their trafficking debt, and few ever escape their nightmarish ordeal.
- DirectorDerek HammekeStarsStephanie FreedFollows the lives of three young Cambodian women who were victims of sex trafficking at a young age. Experience these girls heartaches and hopes as they struggle to go from victim to survivor.
- 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.
- DirectorJosh PeckStarsJosh PeckJohn B. WellsJaco BooyensThis documentary goes where no other film about child sex trafficking has gone before to provide accurate, in-depth, and gut-wrenching information, testimonies, and statistics on the darkest elements of this issue.
- 20181h 22m8.6 (376)VideoDirectorNick NantonRamy RomanyStarsTim BallardAnthony RobbinsGlenn BeckTim Ballard and his special forces team go undercover in Haiti to bring a ring of sex traffickers who bribed their way out of jail, to justice.
- DirectorSadhvi Siddhali ShreeStarsSusanne DietzelCarolina DouthitCecilia Flores-OebandaWith 27 million victims worldwide, Stopping Traffic starts the conversation on a taboo topic through the eyes of survivors, activists, and front-line rescue teams to launch a movement to end modern-day slavery in the U.S. and abroad.
- DirectorSadhvi Siddhali ShreeStarsDaniel AmenSadhvi AnubhutiRachel FischerBrave and resilient sex trafficking survivors around the world share their struggles to break free from their past and find hope for the future.
- DirectorEmilie UpczakStarsKandyse McClureValerie TianJacqueline ChanAfter being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago, Zhenzhen discovers the true cost of her arrival.
- DirectorDaniel KoomanMatthew KoomanStarsWill Yun LeeEugenia YuanGiovanni MocibobJason, an American lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against a pimp trafficking girls to Bangkok. Can he win the trust of a young prostitute known only as Number 18 and convince her to risk her life to testify against her pimp?
- DirectorThomas MignoneStarsBrittany SnowJosh JanowiczClayne CrawfordA lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.
- DirectorDee McLachlanStarsEmma LungVeronica SywakSaskia BurmeisterA thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.
- DirectorPatrick WellsStarsNawal Al-MaghafiFares Al-MusawiHusain Al-MusawiThis powerful investigation into Shia clerics in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a dark network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite. Unprecedented undercover filming and victim testimony reveal how they procure young women for male clients and are prepared to conduct 'pleasure marriages' with children as young as ten years old. These halal pleasure marriages totally circumvent Iraq civil law, but are routinely ignored.
- DirectorWill WallaceStarsAmiah MillerAshley JuddSean Patrick FlaneryIn this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
- DirectorJaco BooyensStarsNicole SmolenSebastian AguilarCameron AllsupAfter sneaking to a party with her friends, 16-year-old Amber Stevens goes missing. Forced into the world of sex trafficking, her family and community fight to get her back. Inspired by actual events.
- 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.
- DirectorJaco BooyensStarsNicole SmolenSebastian AguilarCameron AllsupAfter sneaking to a party with her friends, 16-year-old Amber Stevens goes missing. Forced into the world of sex trafficking, her family and community fight to get her back. Inspired by actual events.
- DirectorMarc WieseThere are over 45 million people living in slavery around the world. More than ever before in human history. This film traces their stories.
- DirectorJaco BooyensStarsNicole SmolenSebastian AguilarCameron AllsupAfter sneaking to a party with her friends, 16-year-old Amber Stevens goes missing. Forced into the world of sex trafficking, her family and community fight to get her back. Inspired by actual events.
- DirectorMarc WieseThere are over 45 million people living in slavery around the world. More than ever before in human history. This film traces their stories.
- DirectorYan VizinbergStarsNatasha RinisSayed BadreyaPhilip WillinghamA young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, must fight for her life in order to derail the traffickers' plans.
- DirectorJeffrey D. BrownStarsGillian AndersonDavid ArquettePriyanka BoseA girl risks everything for freedom after being trafficked from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India.
- 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.