Movies: Child labour

Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is the home of Anant, an 8 year old boy who scrapes a living picking coal and selling it at the local ma...

On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager, will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors....

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up. This is Dhaka, Ban...

An upcoming hand-drawn animated film about a village boy who works in a brick kiln to support his family after his father's death....

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates....

The Price of Cheap tells the stories of modern slaves in textiles manufacturing supply chains and the brave individuals fighting on the ground against immeasurable odds to help them. We follow a man named Joseph Raj, who runs an organization called T...

A boy migrates from Guerrero to Colima in Mexico, guided by the illusion of his parents, who want him to study high school. Nevertheless, the inequality barriers force him to work as a sugarcane harvester....

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The Rope (Roshi), directed and produced by independent filmmaker Yasmine Kabir, is a 10-minute silent documentary about the children who are employed in Dhaka to make rope from jute and work from dawn to dusk twisting, tying, knotting and weaving the...

The story of a country that is obliged to give up on its future... The documentary pictures the town of Tor famous for its coal mines located in the north of Afghanistan, which most of us haven’t even heard of, and the tragedy of the children that ar...