Human Trafficking Themes: Fact and Fiction
by office-86436 | created - 22 Jan 2021 | updated - 22 Jan 2021 | PublicNoah 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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1. Children of Shadows (2001)
53 min | Documentary
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Karen Kramer
2. Servant or Slave (2016 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A 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.
Director: Steven McGregor | Stars: Larissa Behrendt, Cheyenne Cruse, Valerie Linow, Adelaide Wenberg
Votes: 61
3. Servant or Slave: Additional Interviews (2017 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Larissa Behrendt, Emelda Davis, Fiona Skyring
4. Trafficker (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary
Nigeria 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.
Director: Anja Dalhoff
Votes: 8
5. Finding Home (2014)
Unrated | 118 min | Documentary, Drama
Follows 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.
Director: Derek Hammeke | Star: Stephanie Freed
Votes: 223
6. The Pink Room (2011)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Drama
After 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Sandvos | Stars: Bridget Brewster, Don Brewster, Clayton Butler, Sue Hanna
Votes: 49
7. Silent Cry: The Darker Side of Trafficking (2020)
Not Rated | 124 min | Documentary
This 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.
Director: Josh Peck | Stars: Josh Peck, John B. Wells, Jaco Booyens, Thomas Horn
Votes: 39
8. Operation Toussaint: Operation Underground Railroad and the Fight to End Modern Day Slavery (2018 Video)
82 min | Documentary
Tim 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.
Directors: Nick Nanton, Ramy Romany | Stars: Tim Ballard, Anthony Robbins, Glenn Beck, Orrin Hatch
Votes: 376
9. Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary, Crime
With 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.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Susanne Dietzel, Carolina Douthit, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, Mario Garfias
Votes: 138
10. Surviving Sex Trafficking (2021)
70 min | Documentary
Brave and resilient sex trafficking survivors around the world share their struggles to break free from their past and find hope for the future.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Daniel Amen, Sadhvi Anubhuti, Rachel Fischer, Kendra Geronimo
Votes: 50
11. Crime Stoppers Case Files: Southern California Human Trafficking Part 2 (2014 TV Movie)
Crime
Directors: David O'Connor II, Thomas Whelan | Stars: Monica Weitzel, Ishmael Williams, Jocelyn Martinez
12. Crime Stoppers Case Files: Southern California Human Trafficking (2014 TV Movie)
Crime
Directors: David O'Connor II, Thomas Whelan | Stars: Monica Weitzel, Ishmael Williams, Jocelyn Martinez, David O'Connor II
13. Moving Parts (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
After being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago, Zhenzhen discovers the true cost of her arrival.
Director: Emilie Upczak | Stars: Kandyse McClure, Valerie Tian, Jacqueline Chan, Rachelle Hay
Votes: 88
14. She Has a Name (2016)
108 min | Drama, Thriller
Jason, 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?
Directors: Daniel Kooman, Matthew Kooman | Stars: Will Yun Lee, Eugenia Yuan, Giovanni Mocibob, Teresa Ting
Votes: 140
15. On the Doll (2007)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.
Director: Thomas Mignone | Stars: Brittany Snow, Josh Janowicz, Clayne Crawford, Shanna Collins
Votes: 1,609
16. The Jammed (2007)
89 min | Drama, Thriller
A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.
Director: Dee McLachlan | Stars: Emma Lung, Veronica Sywak, Saskia Burmeister, Sun Park
Votes: 871
17. Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq's Secret Sex Trade (2019 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
This 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... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Wells | Stars: Nawal Al-Maghafi, Fares Al-Musawi, Husain Al-Musawi, Ghaith Tamimi
Votes: 137
18. Trafficked (2017)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
In 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.
Director: Will Wallace | Stars: Ashley Judd, Sean Patrick Flanery, Brian Thompson, Amiah Miller
Votes: 1,829
19. 8 Days (2014)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Jaco Booyens | Stars: Nicole Smolen, Sebastian Aguilar, Cameron Allsup, Ivette Alvarez
Votes: 356
20. In Plain Sight: Stories of Hope and Freedom (2014)
69 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
IN 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... See full summary »
Directors: Noah Lamberth, David Trotter | Star: Natalie Grant
Votes: 14
21. 8 Days (2014)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Jaco Booyens | Stars: Nicole Smolen, Sebastian Aguilar, Cameron Allsup, Ivette Alvarez
Votes: 356
22. Slaves (2017)
90 min | Documentary
There are over 45 million people living in slavery around the world. More than ever before in human history. This film traces their stories.
Director: Marc Wiese
Votes: 9
23. 8 Days (2014)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Jaco Booyens | Stars: Nicole Smolen, Sebastian Aguilar, Cameron Allsup, Ivette Alvarez
Votes: 356
24. Slaves (2017)
90 min | Documentary
There are over 45 million people living in slavery around the world. More than ever before in human history. This film traces their stories.
Director: Marc Wiese
Votes: 9
25. Cargo (I) (2011)
R | 85 min | Drama
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, must fight for her life in order to derail the traffickers' plans.
Director: Yan Vizinberg | Stars: Natasha Rinis, Sayed Badreya, Philip Willingham, Raul Torres
Votes: 532
26. Sold (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama
A girl risks everything for freedom after being trafficked from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India.
Director: Jeffrey D. Brown | Stars: Gillian Anderson, David Arquette, Priyanka Bose, Tillotama Shome
Votes: 1,999
27. Eden (I) (2012)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, cooperates with her captors in a desperate ploy to survive.
Director: Megan Griffiths | Stars: Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O'Leary, Eddie Martinez
Votes: 9,455
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