The Charcoal People (2000)
• January 20th, 2000 • 1h 4min
Documentary
Overview
This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Children in Crisis: The Story of CHIP
Released on: 2024-01-08
Documentary
In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...
Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco
Released on: 2022-10-06
Documentary
Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already bee...
The Salt Mines
Released on: 1990-10-01
Documentary
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
Awaken
Released on: 2021-04-09
Documentary, Music, Family, Mystery
A documentary film exploring humanity's relationship with technology and with the natural world. Sho...
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities
Released on: 1998-08-12
Documentary
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Thank You for the Rain
Released on: 2017-03-20
Documentary
Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family,...
A Farra do Circo
Released on: 2013-11-30
Documentary
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
ciao Aracà
Released on: 2020-09-17
Documentary
"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Cale...
Bigger Than Us
Released on: 2021-09-22
Documentary
For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Ind...
An Inconvenient Truth
Released on: 2006-05-24
Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Stripper
Released on: 1985-10-21
Documentary
A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own...
March of the Penguins
Released on: 2005-01-26
Documentary, Family
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Released on: 2004-12-08
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...
Another Side of the Forest
Released on: 1974-05-10
Documentary
Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as ...
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Released on: 2012-03-24
Documentary
As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million peop...
Zelené priehrady
Released on: 1950-12-31
Documentary
A document on the importance of forests to the national economy. It represents forests not only as a...