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Trafficking: Background

Films Dealing with Issues Surrounding Human Trafficking

This list is provided as a resource to help you learn more about the issues surrounding human trafficking. Amnesty International USA has not previewed the films for content or quality. Films and videos are often available through community and college libraries, and purchase information may be available via the website links.

Children for Sale: Dateline documentary shot by a film crew that went undercover with a human rights group to uncover sex trafficking in Cambodia.
Lilja 4-Ever: Swedish film released in 2003 depicting the struggles of Lilja (Okshana Akinshina), a16-year-old girl living in an unidentified ex-Soviet republic.
Promised Land: A film by Amos Gitai (shown at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival) about human trafficking from Eastern Europe to Israel.
Sisters and Daughters Betrayed: Video about the realities of sex trafficking and forced prostitution.
So Great a Violence, Prostitution, Trafficking & the Global Sex Industry: According to a review, "this film inspires a campaign of zero tolerance of sexual exploitation if the promise of universal human rights is to be realized."
The Day My God Died: Seventy-minute documentary about young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade in Nepal and India.
The Peacekeepers and the Women: Film by Karin Jurschick distributed by Women Make Movies.
Trading Women: Narrated by Angelina Jolie, this film investigates the trade in minority girls and women out of Burma, Yunnan and Laos into Thailand.

Films/Clips, is a website listing films on human trafficking. Click on the film title to learn more about each film in this list from that site: