Product Details

• Actors: Basilio Vargas, Bernardino Vargas
• Directors: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Spanish (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
• DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EULK14
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,869 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Devil's Miner" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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DEVIL'S MINER - DVD Movie

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Life Bolivia, Real Life Children, Excellent DVD, May 25, 2006

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Pearse O'Sullivan (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil's Miner (DVD)

This story, the story of child laborers in the "3rd world" is a harrowing account of poverty and misery. But it is also a story about hope, the hope that these children, and the some 800 other children who work the same mines, can get out of the life and acheive something more than the certain death that awaits all of such miners. What a great movie, you actually start to feel clausterphobic when the camera takes you to the deepest depths of the mines with these children. You feel your throat start to close up when you watch these workers walk through the dust without masks.

This movie explains why someone like Evo Morales has come to power in Bolivia, and anyone who derieds such a humble man as Morales needs to watch this DVD.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Child Laborers In Bolivia, July 13, 2008

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Chris Luallen (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil's Miner (DVD)

Basilio and Bernandino Vargas are two Bolivian kids who, because of the death of their father, have to work as child laborers in the Cerro Rico silver mines. Basilio works long shifts for $2.50 a day. But then transfers to a more dangerous mine where he is able to make $4.00 a day. Somehow he manages to also attend to school, though he has to spend a substantial amount of his salary just to pay for his school uniform.

One of the great things about this doc is that the film makers have a sincere humanitarian purpose. They not only want to educate viewers about the horrors of child labor. But actually do something tangiable to better the lives of these kids.

Included in the bonus features is a short film which shows how Basilio and Bernardino are doing one year after filming. Apparently an aide agency called Kindernothilfe has enabled the boys to leave the mines, move their family into a apartment in Potosi and continue their educations so they will have better opportunities in life.

I wish these great youngsters, and others like them, all the best. They deserve it!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seldom does a documentary capture both my mind and heart, June 25, 2006

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Allan M. Gathercoal "fdoamerica" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil's Miner (DVD)

Seldom does a documentary capture both my mind and heart, yet 'The Devil's Miner' does just that. This is more than an entrance into hell on earth; it is the story of a child captured by the beast of poverty and despair.

Because of my humanitarian work I have been inside the La Cumbre silver mine, the mountain that eats men. This excellent documentary captures the darkness and dome of those that scrape out a meager living, while at the same time giving the viewer hope for those trapped. There is a light at the end of the shaft, a very small distant light, but light nonetheless.

This is a must view for all who will be going to Bolivia and especially for those who will visit this mine in Potosi. Excellent. Highly Recommended.