Sentences with phrase «slave labor under»

At one point he and his grandfather only escape death because of a very fortunate coincidence, but shortly after that incident he and his father are taken prisoner and forced into slave labor under terrible circumstances.

Not exact matches

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

To make it slightly more manageable, however, we've excluded the following films because we've already seen them very recently in either Venice or Telluride (titles are linked to reviews): Jason Reitman's «Labor Day,» Jonathan Glazer's «Under The Skin,» starring Scarlett Johansson; Alfonso Cuaron's «Gravity»; the Michael Fassbender - starring «12 Years A Slave»; Kelly Reichardt's «Night Moves»; Ralph Fiennes» «The Invisible Woman ``; Ti West's «The Sacrament ``; David Gordon Green's «Joe» starring Nicolas Cage, John Curran «s «Tracks, «and Hayao Miyazaki «s alleged last film, «The Wind Rises.»