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List Price: $6.99 | | Label: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 7601
Released: May 2, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Nominated for Two Golden Globes® - Best Actress and Best Actor in a TV Miniseries; Lifetime Television's most-watched miniseries of 2005. Featuring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award winner Donald Sutherland (The Italian Job), Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, Human Trafficking is at once a gripping thriller, a cautionary tale, and one of the most fundamentally important stories of our time. DVD Features include: Interviews with Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle, Behind the Scenes with the cast and crew, and A "Take Action" Guide to shop human trafficking now!
Description of Human Trafficking:
The Lifetime cable channel made TV history with this ambitious, acclaimed original miniseries on the horrifying phenomenon of human trafficking, or sexual slavery. It follows the fictional cases of young women around the world, lured or abducted, sometimes right off the street, into a world of unspeakable brutality--which the filmmakers show in almost overwhelming detail at times. Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland star as American government officials bent on exposing and stopping the phenomenon, and both are more than serviceable in their roles. But the revelation is Robert Carlyle, the Scottish star of The Full Monty and Trainspotting, who here is transformed into a ruthless criminal mastermind behind his own trafficking network. Even his Eastern European accent is spot-on and blood-chilling. The supporting cast of women and girls is strong, and in some cases, truly heartbreaking. And while sometimes almost unbearably harsh, the film serves as a reminder this terrible situation still exists and thrives; and told through the characters, is also a well-paced thriller. --A.T. Hurley
Human Trafficking Reviews:
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2008-11-01 - This is a good movie. Shows that something can be done about what goes on in this world that shouldn't.
Awesome movie... it will open your eyes to this horrible slavery taking place in the world today 
2008-10-07 - This movie was really eye opening about the realities of the human slave trade which is a real evil that exists in today's world. It makes you feel compassion towards those who are caught up in this as slaves, and anger for the injustices of those who are motivated by greed to sell another human life which they have no right to do. I pray for these people caught in this evil industry to be set free.. for God to raise up men and women to stand up for righteousness, speaking out against these atrocities, and those with the power to do so, to put a stop to these wicked crimes... for corrupt people in government to be cast out of government for not ending this... and those in high places who really care to be protected and guided... this is a horrible thing, i wish more people cared and were made aware that this is one of the many evils taking place in this world, so we can unite to fight against this, and not tolerate such evil in this one world we share... every person should be free to make their own choices, no one should ever be a forced to have sex against their will, especially little children, may the people who pay for such services be stopped, All who participate in these things will be judged by God, don't think you will get away with what you are doing
Modern Slavery & How It Must Be Confronted
2008-07-08 - This is a deeply disturbing film, about the deeply disturbing subject of human trafficking.
As per the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report 2007, "[Human trafficking] deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it increases global health risks, and it fuels the growth of organized crime... [Each year,] approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders, which does not include millions trafficked within their own countries. Approximately 80 percent of transnational victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The majority of transnational victims are females trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation."
Last year marked the 200th anniversary of British parliamentarian William Wilberforce's efforts to end the slave trade. It was New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, who authored and championed the first anti-trafficking legislation. Wilberforce and Smith shared/share a passionate belief in the sanctity of each and every human life. Smith is also co-chair of the Pro Life Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Shockingly informative
2008-06-30 - At work we have annual training about human trafficking, but this movie is much more personalized and insightful about this world wide problem.
Human Traff Reveiw
2008-05-08 - This video depicts the issue of Human Trafficking so well. The story of each girl is so real, this is what actually happens and it's how the human trafficking chain is formed. I think for a television series they exposed just enough to make you sick and make you want to do something. They didn't make it a feel good sunshine movie, they showed the hard core truth of human trafficking and the lives that it destroys. I give it five stars for the truth it produces!
