Film and Book Recommendations
BOOKS
On Human Trafficking
Refuse to do Nothing by Kimberly McOwen Yim and Shayne Moore
In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking & What We Can Do To Stop It by Nita Belles *
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking & Slavery in America Today by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter *
On Sex Trafficking
Survivor Memoirs
Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd *
Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps
The Slave Across the Street by Theresa Flores & PeggySue Wells
Fallen by Annie Lober
On Seeking Justice
The Just Church by Jim Martin
Deepening The Soul For Justice by Bethany H. Hoang
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen
How Christianity Has Changed the World by Alvin. J. Schmidt
Undaunted by Christine Caine
Just Courage by Gary Haugen
On Sexual Struggles
Surfing for God by Michael John Cusick
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace by Heath Lambert
On Human Volunteering
For Children
Good Pictures Bad Pictures by Kristen A. Jensen M.A.
God’s Design for Sex by Carolyn Nystrom, Stan Jones and Brenna Jones
The Family Project Devotional: Reflecting God’s Design in Your Home by Ray Seldomridge
On Labor Trafficking
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy – by Kevin Bales
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – by Ishmael Beah
Not for Sale – by David Batstone
FILMS
In Plain Sight **
Documentary (2014): raises awareness about children and women in the commercial sex industry in the United States
Not My Life
Documentary (2011): discusses human trafficking and contemporary slavery
A Path Appears
Documentary (2015): explores the injustices of gender-based oppression and human rights violations
Priceless
Narrative (2016): a widower drives a truck across the country, unknowingly carrying two victims who are being trafficker
The Abolitionists
Documentary (2016): the team Operation Underground Railroad investigates and liberates children working in the sex industry around the world
The Dark Side of Chocolate
Documentary (2010): explores how child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels chocolate companies around the world
The True Cost
Documentary (2015): shows the effects of fashion on the world and on the environment
Nefarious **
Documentary (2011): depicts details of modern-day slavery in our world today, and shares research and accounts from victims, traffickers, and international humanitarian leaders
Born Into Brothels **
Documentary (2006): portrays several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta’s red light district, where there mothers work as prostitutes.
Black Gold
Documentary (2007): traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans.
Not For Sale **
Narrative (2011): covers what modern day abolitionists are doing to fight the rampant terrors of human trafficking in the US and abroad.
The Selling of Innocents **
Documentary (2016): follows the flesh trade from its source in Katmandu to the sex factories of Bombay.
Kavi
Narrative (2007): The story of a young boy who attempts to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a bonded labor slave in India.
Call and Response
Documentary: raise awareness about the 27 million slaves in the world today.
A Dance for Bethany
Narrative: inspiring and compelling story of how one woman risks everything to help a sex trafficked victim out of the world of slavery and into a world with a future and a hope of fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a real dancer.
Trade **
Documentary (2008): aims to enlighten viewers to the horrors of the international sex slave trade, functions in a somewhat documentary mode due to its purposefully repellent nature.
War Dance
Documentary (2008): reveals the redemptive power of music, even in the most horrific places
Price of Sugar
Narration (2007): a charismatic Spanish priest, organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people to fight for their basic human rights.
Playground Project **
Documentary (2011): exposes the industry of child sex trafficking right in the heart of America.
Amazing Grace
Movie (2007): inspiring story of William Wilberforce and his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th century
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* These books are written from various viewpoints and may not reflect a Christian worldview
** Rated R or NR films