forced labour movies

Dogville (2003)
7.771 / 10

Crime, Drama, Thriller

A mysterious woman named Grace hides in a small mountain town from criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long...

The Battleship Island (2017)
7.202 / 10

Action, History, Drama, War

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to...

Dead in Tombstone (2013)
5 / 10

Western, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Drama

An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal...

King of Devil's Island (2010)
7.2 / 10

Drama, Action

Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth,...

A Love in Germany (1983)
4.9 / 10

Drama

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...

Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy (2021)
7.9 / 10

History, War, Documentary, TV Movie

How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World...

Awakening (1990)
4.5 / 10

Drama, History

It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian...

Not My Life (2011)
0 / 10

Documentary

Not My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five...

Honor Bound (1928)
0 / 10

Drama

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is...

The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
7 / 10

Documentary

A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview...

Tattoo (1978)
3 / 10

Drama set at the end of World War Two in China. A young woman, fighting for the independence of her homeland is tortured for the whereabouts of the...

North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes (2018)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations -...

Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil (2016)
7.7 / 10

Documentary

The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas in the interior of...

Stasi, un État contre son peuple (2021)
9 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six...

Boreal (2022)
0 / 10

Drama

Young Benjamin is having trouble adjusting to barbed wirework. Waiting for days to the Mennonite chief but the wait is very long. The other workers,...

Learning to Milk a Cow (2016)
10 / 10

A daring documentary delving into the experiences of a Ukrainian forced labourer in Germany during World War II, exploring themes of love, loss, and...