Stolen Childhoods
Time Out says
This affecting documentary gives a pointed journalistic account of the working
conditions faced by 246 million young laborers. Featuring interviews with
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and
other human-rights activists, the doc also presents disturbing footage of
exploited kids from across the globe, including coffee pickers in Kenya and teen
prostitutes in Mexico City. Plenty of provocative commentary is offered—for
example, Harkin's assertion that the slave-labor nations are a breeding ground
for terrorists—but the film's most compelling evidence of youth exploitation is
the testimony of the children themselves.