Blood, Sweat and Sugar

Blood, Sweat and Sugar

0.0 2025 | 92 min

Documentary History

Sugar is sweet, seductive, addictive - but built on human suffering. This feature-length reveals how an enticing luxury became the engine of a global system powered by slavery, exploitation and environmental destruction, a legacy still shaping the world today. From the 19th-century slave plantations to modern refineries in the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Reunion, India, South Africa and Europe, the series traces how sugar fuelled colonial empires, drove some of the worst aspects of international trade and commerce, and left deep social and ecological scars that are still present in labour abuses and exhausted landscapes today.

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"How sugar was built on a global system of slavery"

Released

October 7, 2025

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PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Hauteville Productions
Hauteville Productions
ARTE
ARTE
Inicia Films
Inicia Films
Wonder Maria Filmes
Wonder Maria Filmes
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English French German
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