Movies and TvShows featuring "forced-labour" theme.
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
In American Carnage, a governor's executive order leads to the arrest of the children of undocumented immigrants. To have their charges dropped, the detained youth are given a chance to provide caregiving to the elderly. This movie highlights the effects of xenophobia, racism, and intolerance, as well as the challenges faced by both immigrant communities and senior citizens.
Grace, a woman fleeing from gangsters, seeks shelter in a small Colorado town. The townspeople agree to protect her, but as time goes on, they demand more and more from her, leading to abuse and exploitation. When Grace's true identity is revealed, she seeks revenge on the town by orchestrating their destruction with the help of the mobsters.
In 1944, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, a group of Korean people, including a comfort woman, a girl child, and a dance team, try to escape the labor camp on Battleship Island. They face numerous challenges, including torture, beatings, and forced labor. With the help of a Korean resistance fighter, they plan a daring escape from the island.
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German prisoners of war, some of them boys, are forced to clear minefields under the command of a Danish sergeant. The movie portrays the inhumane treatment the prisoners face and explores themes of humanity, moral dilemmas, and heroism.
Set in the 1910s, King of Devil's Island tells the story of a reform school on a remote island in Norway. The school is known for its brutal methods and operates under oppressive conditions. The movie follows the revolt of the teenage inmates against the harsh treatment they endure. The revolt escalates into a violent showdown between the young boys and the authorities, highlighting themes of abuse, rebellion, and survival.
In Dead in Tombstone, a man named Guerrero is betrayed and killed by his gang. He finds himself in Hell, where he is given a chance for redemption. Guerrero strikes a deal with the Devil to escape from Hell and seek his revenge on the men who killed him. As he sets out on his mission, he discovers supernatural powers and faces a number of challenges. Will Guerrero be able to take his vengeance and find redemption?
The Grey Zone is a powerful drama based on true events that takes place in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. It follows the story of a group of prisoners who are forced to work in the camp's Sonderkommando unit and are faced with moral dilemmas and the struggle for survival. As they witness the atrocities and horrors of the gas chambers, they plan a revolt in a desperate attempt to save themselves and others.
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.
Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations - exploiting the profits to fulfil their own agenda. These bonded labourers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world including EU member states. Featuring undercover footage and powerful testimonials, we reveal the scale and brutality of the operation and ask what, if anything, is being done to stop it.
Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil is a documentary that explores the haunting tale of young boys who were victims of forced labor and slavery during the Nazism era in Brazil. The film sheds light on the dark history of racism and uncovers the untold stories of these forgotten boys.
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
The Dark Side of Chocolate is a powerful documentary that exposes the exploitation and forced labor within the chocolate industry. It focuses on the ethical issues surrounding child labor and human trafficking in the cocoa plantations of Ivory Coast and other West African countries. Through hidden camera footage and interviews with escaped slaves and activists, the film reveals the corrupt system and corporate greed that perpetuate this modern-day slave trade.
With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
After his father disappears and the rest of his family is sent to a notorious political prison camp in North Korea, a young boy must learn to survive the harsh conditions, find meaning in his perilous existence, and maybe even escape.
Afrique 50 is a 1950 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.
Nazi propaganda film about the "Theresienstadt ghetto". The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
At the end of WWII, the Japanese decide to build a secret submarine base in Hong Kong for a last point of resistance. The mariners on a Chinese cargo boat are interned and forced to be labourers. When the Japanese commander orders that the laborers are to be killed on completion of the base, the captain of the cargo boat leads his crew in a fight for survival.