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Author
Language
English
Description
In armed conflicts large parts of both the logistics and the actual combatants have been outsourced to private companies who want to maximize profit. As a result, cheap labour is hired from the poorest parts of the world. The gravest example of which is the employment of former child soldiers. The US Department of Defence have engaged in an almost $300 million deal with the private military company Aegis to execute operations in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Français
Description
A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In a battle against the klaxosaurs only the children, classified as parasites, are humanity's hope in this dying world. Fighting in mechanized suits known as FRANXX, parasites are grouped up in male and female pairs to face the monstrous creatures. Hiro was once a prodigy FRANXX pilot. But when he gives up the fight, he meets Zero Two, the girl with the horns, and finds a new reason to keep going.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Publisher
Mindset Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the situation in Northern Uganda, a region devastated by a civil war between Yoweri Museveni's government forces and the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This war has been characterised by the extreme brutality of the LRA and in particular the abduction of over twenty-five thousand children. These children are then forced into committing atrocities or put into military combat. In addition, over one and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1091
Publisher
The Criterion Collection, Netflix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Right now, hundreds of thousands of children are being used as active combatants in conflicts across the globe, some as young as seven years old. This deeply moving program brings the tragic issue of child soldiers to light through the lens of a comprehensive investigation. Discover the surprisingly long history of children used in combat, and how the current widespread practice has made innocence one of the most devastating casualties of modern warfare....
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A group of child soldiers, Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and several others, are sent to protect a young aristocrat seeking to liberate a Martian city from Earth₂s rule. When an outside force threatens those involved, Mikazuki must head into battle using a war-era relic, the Gundam Barbatos.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A group of child soldiers, Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and several others, are sent to protect a young aristocrat seeking to liberate a Martian city from Earth's rule. When an outside force threatens those involved, Mikazuki must head into battle using a war-era relic, the Gundam Barbatos.
16) Wild Daze
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to wildlife trophy hunters, WILD DAZE explores the relationship between international crime cartels, child soldiers, colluding government officials, and the illegal wildlife trade.
18) Wild Daze
Author
Language
English
Description
Featuring conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to wildlife trophy hunters, Wild Daze explores the relationship between international crime cartels, child soldiers, colluding government officials, and the illegal wildlife trade.
19) Akilla's Escape
Author
Language
English
Description
In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one grueling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.
20) After Kony
Author
Language
English
Description
After Kony: Staging Hope is a documentary film that follows a team of actors, playwrights, and activists in Uganda who use theater to help former child soldiers or sex slaves that escaped their abductors explore the traumatic events they have been through. Through dramatizing their stories, the teens are able to share their voices with the community and the world. The film captures the incredible humanity and emotion between the children and adults...