A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.
The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.
This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.
The Inheritors immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor. Polgovsky spent two years filming in many of the poorest rural areas of Mexico.
Storia dei Mighty Mites, il team di football dell'orfanotrofio di Fort Worth che, durante il Crollo di Wall Street, sono passati dal giocare senza scarpe a partecipare ai campionati del Texas. La squadra era guidata dall'allenatore Rusty Russell, anche lui rimasto orfano, che aveva rinunciato a lavorare con dei ragazzini privilegiati per occuparsi dei Mighty Mites. I Mighty Mites hanno scritto una pagina di storia dello sport. Durante l'epoca della Grande Depressione statunitense del 1929, hanno scalato le posizioni nell'ambito dei tornei di football.
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
When Madeline's long lost uncle Horst arrives to take her to a Viennese finishing school, Miss Clavel, the eleven little girls and Pepito realize that something is not right.
During a time of robber barons, child labor, and rising industry, two orphan girls get a little help from their unexpected guardian angels who turn the tide of events and change their lives forever.
Nel 1843 a Londra, l'autore Charles Dickens si trova in difficoltà finanziarie dopo aver scritto tre romanzi senza successo di fila. Alla disperata ricerca di un successo, Dickens si affida all'ispirazione della vita reale e alla sua vivida immaginazione per dare vita a Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim e altri personaggi classici in "A Christmas Carol", trasformando per sempre le festività natalizie nella celebrazione conosciuta oggi.
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
Una versione animata della classica storia di David Copperfield. Pieno di musica, colori e versioni antropomorfe dei personaggi classici.
Se il giovane David è ancora un gattino spensierato e giocoso, sua madre sposa il severo Murdstone. Con suo grande dispiacere, si trasferiscono a Londra, dove deve lavorare come prigioniero nella fabbrica di formaggi del suo patrigno mediocre. Fortunatamente, David fa amicizia con Micawber, Mealy Potatoes e Agnes, un bellissimo gatto persiano, con il quale vive grandi avventure.
Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?In this investigative film, director Miki Mistrati tries to find out, if the chocolate industry – which is one of the largest corporations in the world – speak the truth, when they say that they provide education, medical care etc for the children of the Ivory Coast. But the project runs into trouble already from the get-go, because the embassy of the Ivory Coast won’t let Miki enter the country until he has an invitation – from the chocolate industry.
Un gruppo di volontari si ritrova in un cupo maniero per partecipare a degli studi sui disturbi del sonno: in realtà, quello che veramente interessa al professor Marrow è studiare la loro paura...
When the killer of an adolescent labor activist is acquitted, journalist Shahbaz Bhatti sees glaring loopholes in the verdict, and begins a quest for justice. But each lead he follows contradicts the one before, and the twisted story reveals the ugly truth of child labor in 1990s Pakistan.
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 Leslie Kretzu attempt to survive on a Nike worker’s wage in the industrial slums of Indonesia.
Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step back to breathe and to be children once again.
An orphan in 18th century London lashes out against the harrowing child labor market.
Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?