Organ Trafficking - Documentaries

The Transplant Trade
Channel 4 (UK)—Thursday 22 April 2004, 21:00 hrs, 90 min
The Transplant Trade follows the plight of people in different countries who are in desperate need of an organ transplant. Since the sale of organs is illegal, many people are driven to the black market, where the main beneficiaries are the brokers. Should the UK allow doctors to use organs from the deceased without prior permission? Should people be allowed to sell their organs under strict guidelines? For the people in this film, these are questions of life and death.

Trafficking in Organs
French-German channel ART (UK), 20 January 2004
"Should the poor provide for the health of the rich? Should the price of alleviating poverty be human health?", asked Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur on Trafficking in Organs, at the presentation of a television documentary, Organs to be Sold, in the presence of the French Minister for Families. The film suggests that society should fight this abject form of exploiting the most destitute at pan-European level, particularly by drafting an additional protocol to the future European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings".

Iran Kidney Sale
BBC 2 (UK)—Tuesday 31 October 2006, 21:50 hrs
The film goes inside one of Iran's kidney donor clinics. In Iran, the buying and selling of kidneys is legal and regulated by the state. As a result, the Iranians claim to have eliminated waiting lists for people on dialysis. The only problem is that if you do not have the money for a new kidney then there is no list to get on. This documentary gives a fascinating insight into ordinary life in Iran through the eyes of two young Iranians who have decided to sell a kidney.

Buying Hope: Selling Illegal Organs
BBC One (Scotland)—09 Jul 2008, 22:45 hrs
With Scotland's organ donation programme in crisis, BBC Scotland follows one BBC researcher as she becomes Scotland's first altruistic donor, donating one of her kidneys to a complete stranger in a bid to save a life. What she uncovers on her journey is truly shocking - she discovers, and secretly films, people across the UK willing to sell their own organs, and travels to India to look at how the shortage of healthy organs in Europe is having devastating effects in developing countries.

Transplant Tourism
(Canada) 2003, Director David Paperny, Produced by CBC, Paperny Films
Cameras follow Canadians with kidney disease who grapple with the life-and-death decision to buy an organ on the black market.

Tales from the Organ Trade
Every year thousands of organs are bought and sold on a black market that flourishes in dozens of countries, where the rule of law is a hostage to the dollar sign. Tales from the Organ Trade explores the legal, moral and ethical issues involved in this complex life and death business.
http://www.frontlineclub.com/tales-from-the-organ-trade/

Hard to Believe
Hard To Believe is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world. It’s hard to believe that doctors would kill for profit. It’s even harder to believe that major media are not investigating.
http://www.hardtobelievemovie.com