Documentaries

Take an unforgettable journey with six actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of heartbreaking challenge, dramatic transformation and enduring hope. You will be shocked, outraged, brought to tears. Most important, you will be inspired by the resilience of the human spirit and the capabilities of women and girls to realize their staggering potential.
 
A feature documentary that seeks to raise awareness about the 27 million slaves in the world today. The film includes ground breaking performances by Grammy award winning and critically acclaimed artists as well as luminaries such as Madeleine Albright, Nicholas Kristof (NY Times), Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Dr. Cornel West and many other prominent political and cultural figures who weigh in on the 21st century slave trade
 
Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam's infamous red-light district, Moldovan orphanages, legal Nevada brothels, and the street corners and alleyways of metropolises worldwide for more than a glance at the fastest-growing organized crime industry in the world with the groundbreaking, tell-all Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.
Very Young Girls is an exposé of the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in New York City as they are sold on the streets by pimps and treated as adult criminals by police.

Based on the book Not for Sale by David Batstone, this DVD covers what modern day abolitionists are doing to fight the rampant terrors of human trafficking in the US and abroad. Traveling over 120,000 miles across five continents. Producer and Director Robert Marcarelli and his film crew gathered undercover footage on this billion-dollar industry and interviewed the heroes who are determined to see it end.

Filmmaker Libby Spears went undercover to infiltrate brothels in South Korea and Thailand. She held first-hand interviews with victims, their pimps, and their abusers.  She was astonished to find the degree to which Americans were influencing the global demand and growth of the sex trafficking industry.

The Price of Sex  http://priceofsex.org/
Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe

Not My Life  http://notmylife.org/
Features interviews with more than 50 trafficking victims. From 10 year old girls raped in USA truck stops, brothels in Indiana, to street beggars in Africa.  Narrated by Glenn Close

Sex + Money http://sexandmoneyfilm.com
A documentary about domestic minor sex trafficking and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. Since September 2009, the crew has traveled to over 30 states and conducted more than 75 interviews with federal agents, victims, politicians, activists and more.

Chosen http://sharedhope.org/store/chosen-dvd/
A documentary by Shared Hope International.  Tells the shocking true story of two ‘All-American’ teenage girls tricked into trafficking. Eighteen-year-old Brianna was an honor-roll student, cheerleader and worked at a local cafĂ©. Thirteen-year-old Lacy was an active member of her youth group, and a volunteer in her community.

Tricked http://trickedfilm.com/
Meet the pimps, the johns, the police, the parents and the victims of the America’s thriving sex trade.  A comprehensive documentary that uncovers America’s dirty secret. It’s an industry that is fueled by greed, fantasy and the commercial sexual exploitation of American children and girls.

The Pink Room http://thepinkroommovie.com/story/
The Pink Room follows the journey of Mien and other young girls in the turbulent world of sex slavery that at times seems unfathomable.  Mien grew up in Svay Pak, just eleven kilometers outside the capitol city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a vast and vicious epicenter of child sex slavery. The Pink Room shows passionate determination in attacking the complex issue of human trafficking with an even more complex and diverse response of rescue, restoration, reintegration and prevention.

In Plain Sight http://www.inplainsightfilm.com/
Most Americans are completely oblivious to the fact that thousands of women and children are enslaved within their own communities. This isn’t limited to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York. We’re talking about cities across America – from Sacramento to Little Rock to Baltimore – where the unthinkable is happening “in plain sight.”

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