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Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery. It has been featured in popular culture on numerous occasions. ==Film and video== (Alphabetical) * The 2012 film ''Abduction of Eden'' is based on the story of Chong Kim, who was kidnapped and sold into a domestic human trafficking ring in the mid 1990s. The film's main character, Eden, a young Korean-American girl, is abducted near her home in New Mexico and forced into prostitution by a domestic human and drug trafficking ring located outside the bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2014 Kim's story was reported to be false by the non-profit organization Breaking Out.〔Schmader, David (4 June 2014). (Chong Kim, the Woman Whose Allegedly True Story Served as the Basis for Megan Griffith's Film Eden, Denounced as a Fraud ). The Stranger.〕 * The 2008 documentary and concert film ''Call + Response'' combines contemporary musicians' performances with an investigative report on worldwide human trafficking including hidden camera footage from brothels in Thailand. * ''Cool Devices'', a series of animated hentai pornographic videos released as OVA, human trafficking is part of several episodes. * The movie ''Dimanasus Prophecy'' by Dzmitry Vasilyeu addresses human trafficking in Eastern Europe. * The 2007 film ''Eastern Promises'' by David Cronenberg deals with a British midwife who unravels a gang of Russian slavers when she seeks relatives to a baby of a sex slave named Tatiana. *The TV miniseries Human Trafficking is a fictional story imitating real life events. * ''Ghosts'', a documentary by independent filmmaker Nick Broomfield, follows the story of the victims of the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which smuggled immigrants are forced into hard labour. * ''Holly'' (2006) is a movie about a little girl, sold by her poor family and smuggled across the border to Cambodia to work as a prostitute in a red light village. ''The Virgin Harvest'' is a feature length documentary that was filmed at the same time.〔(Holly ), priorityfilms.com (archived from (the original ) on 2007-10-21).〕 * ''The Jammed'', an Australian film about human trafficking in Australia. * ''Lilya 4-ever'', a film based loosely on the real life of Danguolė Rasalaitė, portrays a young woman from the former Soviet Union who is deceived into being trafficked for exploitation in Sweden. * ''Nefarious: Merchant of Souls'', an American documentary about human trafficking written, directed, produced, and narrated by Benjamin Nolot * ''Not My Life'', a documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery * ''Redlight'', a documentary film about human trafficking in Cambodia that premiered on 4 October 2009 at the Woodstock Film Festival * ''La Sconosciuta'', an Italian movie by Giuseppe Tornatore is centered around the story of a Ukrainian woman caught in the human trafficking and sex trade. * David Mamet's 2004 film ''Spartan'' centres on the hunt for the daughter of a high ranking US official who has been kidnapped by an international sex slavery ring. * The 2007 film ''The Sugar Babies'' by Amy Serrano is a documentary that highlights the plight of Haitian victims of human trafficking in the Dominican Republic. It was produced by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza and funded by the Human Rights Foundation. * Based on true events,〔(Facetoface.bg )〕 ''Svetlana's Journey'' (2004),〔(Svetlanasjourney.com )〕 by Michael Cory Davis, depicts the trials of a 13-year-old who loses her family and is sold to human traffickers by her adoptive family. Drugged, raped, and forced to endure continuous abuse by her "clients" and traffickers, she attempts to commit suicide, but survives. * In the 2008 film ''Taken'', by Pierre Morel and starring Liam Neeson, the main character's daughter and her friend are taken by traffickers in Paris. In his quest to find his daughter, the movie depicts foreign girls in Paris who are "trafficked" with the purpose of forcing them to prostitution. * The 2007 film ''Trade'' deals with human trafficking out of Mexico and a brother's attempt to rescue his kidnapped and trafficked young sister. It is based on Peter Landesman's article about sex slaves, which was featured as the cover story in the 24 January 2004 issue of ''New York Times Magazine''. *''The Whistleblower'' is a 2010 thriller film directed by Larysa Kondracki, written by Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan, and starring Rachel Weisz. The film portrays proven and recorded real life events which occurred in Bosnia and Herzigovina to an American police officer(Kathryn Bolkovac) from Nebraska(USA) while working as a United Nations Peacekeeper contracted by Democra Corp., a pseudonym for a present American military contracting company DynCorp,〔Kathryn Bolkovac〕 which was then made into a movie. Dyncorp has also been accused of rapes, murders and underage child sex trafficking in Latin America and countries like Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Kuwait and the Ukraine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Human trafficking in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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