Child Labor Movies

An orphan in 18th century London lashes out against the harrowing child labor market.

It is the 27th anniversary of Thomas Sankara's assassination. Children busy themselves in the piles of rubble, buffeted by the wind... They walk...

In the big city of Bengaluru, schools are reopening after 2 years of virtual classes due to COVID-19. A little girl named Sukhi is still asleep...

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...

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose...

The Inheritors immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor. Polgovsky spent two...

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live on a Nike sweatshop wage? Watch the award-winning short film, Behind the Swoosh, and see Jim Keady and...

A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.

At just six years old, James Kofi Annan is sold into Ghana's fishing industry and forced to work as a child fisherman on Lake Volta. For seven years,...

A short documentary exploring the grueling cycle of child labor in Pakistan through the story of two children, one working at a brick kiln and the...