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WHY SLAVERY? Maid in Hell - In 2016, Mary Kibwana, who worked as maid in Jordan, returned to Kenya with 70% of her body burned. Kibwana is one of many women in Africa and Asia trapped in the Middle East's Kafala System, a set of law governing migrant labor that binds them to their employers. The film gives unprecedented access to the inner workings the system, and the horrific reality faced by thousands of women each day.
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Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?
How does North Korea fulfill their nuclear agenda? By selling their people as laborers.
Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale?
Can freedom - living life as a free person - be more frightening than enslavement?
Can a path to justice and healing be found after genocide, sexual violence and slavery?
In Montego Bay, young athletes prepare to compete in the island’s greatest sporting event.
A vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail to America.
Follow the lives of three Bolivians working at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade.
A reporter's quest leads to shattering the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.
The story of David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the great Mexican artists of the 20th century.
Fleeing persecution, four LGBTQ+ refugees desperate to find a safe place to call home.
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DOC WORLD brings international documentaries from around the globe to a US audience. The films explore social concerns, cultural touchstones, political hot topics and environmental issues, revealing the commonalities and differences that peoples and cultures experience. Told with authentic voices, the series offers a unique and contemporary window into stories that surprise, inform and delight.
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