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The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)

The Dark Side of Chocolate poster
Directed by
Miki Mistrati
Genre
documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
2h
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary investigates the continued use of child labor and slave trading in West African cocoa farms. It shows how children are trafficked and forced to work in dangerous conditions to produce chocolate many years after the industry promised to stop these practices.

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What happens

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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