Films with theme "Films about slavery", sorted by rating

, 1h23
Directed by Richard Young
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about child abuse
Actors Glenn Close

Ce film dépeint les pratiques cruelles et déshumanisantes de la traite des êtres humains et de l'esclavage moderne à l'échelle mondiale. Filmé sur cinq continents, dans une douzaine de pays, "Not My Life" emmène le spectateur dans un monde où des millions d'enfants sont exploités via un panel stupéfiant de pratiques, incluant le travail forcé, le tourisme sexuel, l'exploitation sexuelle, et les enfants soldats.

, 1h54
Directed by Peter Mullan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about religion
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan, Eileen Walsh, Peter Mullan, Frances Healy

Set in Ireland, beginning in 1964, so-called 'fallen' women were considered sinners who needed to be redeemed. The film follows the stories of four young women - Margaret (raped by her cousin), Bernadette (too beautiful and coquettish), Rose (an unmarried mother) and Crispina (an intellectually disabled unmarried mother) - who are all forced by their families or caretakers into the Magdalene Asylum.

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about prostitution, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Laurie Holden

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Laurence Fishburne

Le film traite de la façon dont l'esclavage perdure aux États-Unis par de nombreuses manières, et ce malgré sa « supposée » abolition il y a plusieurs décennies.

, 1h29
Directed by Kōji Morimoto, Shin'ichirō Watanabe, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Takeshi Koike
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about slavery, Films about computing, Philosophie, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Hedy Burress, James Arnold Taylor, Clayton Watson, Kevin Michael Richardson, Pamela Adlon, Melinda Clarke

The plot-summaries of the shorts are listed below in the order that they run in the DVD release, which is not the chronological order. Chronologically, the order would be:

, 1h48
Origin Roumanie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Teodor Corban, Luminița Gheorghiu, Victor Rebengiuc

En Valachie au début du dix-neuvième siècle, Costandin, un policier local, est embauché par le boyard Iordache, pour retrouver Carfin, son esclave tzigane qui a fui après avoir eu une liaison avec sa femme, Sultana.

, 4h42
Directed by John Erman
Origin USA
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Halle Berry, Danny Glover, Christopher Allport, Jasmine Guy, Timothy Daly, Martin Sheen

The series begins with the friendly relationship between James Jackson Jr. (Tim Daly), the son of the plantation owner, and one of the slaves, Easter (Jasmine Guy), at the Jackson estate, known as Forks of Cypress, near Florence in northern Alabama. James and Easter have grown up together (within the social limits of the plantation culture), and gradually their feelings for each other have developed into romance. Easter is the daughter of an African-American house slave, Captain Jack (Paul Winfield), and his true love, Annie, another slave, who is part-Cherokee, and who is no longer on the Jackson property.

Genres Documentary
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité

, 1h58
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone

In 1935, Indiana Jones - Indy (Harrison Ford) narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che (Roy Chiao), a crime boss in Shanghai. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick, Short Round (or Shorty) (Jonathan Ke Quan), and the nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of them sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape on an inflatable raft and ride down the slopes into a raging river. They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. During the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory.

, 2h38
Directed by Koratala Siva
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Mahesh Babu, Shruti Haasan, Rajendra Prasad, Jagapati Babu, Sukanya, Sampath Raj

Harsha Vardhan is the sole heir of his father Ravikanth's business empire worth 250 billion. He takes up a course on rural development after he meets Charusheela at his friend Apparao's birthday party. She wants to use technology for the benefit of Devarakota, a remote village in Uttarandhra where she hails from. Friendship blossoms between them and they become attracted to each other in the course of time.

, 1h49
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Origin Cuba
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Nelson Villagra, Tito Junco

The film tells the story of a pious plantation owner during Cuba's Spanish colonial period. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields, hoping to thus teach the slaves about Christianity.

Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about children, Environmental films, Films about slavery, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse

In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol aimed at ending child trafficking and slave labor in the cocoa industry.

Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery

, 1h58
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about slavery, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell

In 1796 William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. It is here that William is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. Although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him to relate the story of his career.

, 2h52
Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Clonage, Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Philosophie, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Götz Otto, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess

Adam Ewing, an American lawyer, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement with Reverend Horrox and his father-in-law. While in Horrox's plantation, he witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on the ship. Autua confronts Ewing and convinces him to advocate for Autua to join the crew as a free man. Dr Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing, claiming it to be the cure for a parasitic worm, to steal Ewing's valuables. As Goose administers the fatal dose, Autua saves Ewing. Returning to the United States, Ewing and his wife Tilda denounce her father's complicity in slavery and leave to join the abolition movement.