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In 1905, South Africa's British overlords set out to force the powerful Zulu nation to work on white farms. For Chief Bhambatha, the introduction of a poll tax to compel Zulus to do this was the last straw. His people had already been deprived of their land and faced war and famine, and now their patriarchy was at stake. This program recounts the Bhambatha Rebellion, an uprising of the Zulu nation led by their chief against British rule.
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This documentary describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, the Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's...
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This documentary shines new light on a labor trafficking case in which Guatemalan teens were forced by a third-party contractor to work against their will at Trillium Farms in Ohio, a major egg producer. The investigative team exposes a criminal network that exploited undocumented minors, the companies who profited from their forced labor, and how U.S. government policies and practices helped to deliver some teens directly to their traffickers.
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The modern history of the Congo is a terrifying story of appalling brutality. Beginning with King Leopold II of Belgium's avaricious rape of the country and tracing the impact of this horrifying and often-forgotten crime through to the modern day, this immensely shocking doc is a heart-rending tale of a rich country destroyed by rapacious hands.
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They are known as the invisible children of the Dominican Republic-- the young sons and daughters of Haitians lured to the sugar cane fields by the false promise of decent pay. This documentary reveals what actually awaits such children. Despite being born in the D.R., they are denied citizenship, birth certificates, and education. They have little choice but to embrace the same fate as their parents-- which amounts to slavery, as John Miller of the...
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