1. The male rescue narrative also appeared very powerfully in the PBS Frontline special,Sex Slaves, which aired in2006, where the filmmaker follows the harrowing efforts of a heartbroken husband trying to rescue his wife out of sexual slavery, which he accomplishes by the end (Bienstock2006).
2. Another example isThe Candy Shop: A Fairytale about Sexual Exploitation of Children, made by independent filmmakerBrandon McCormick(2011) and promoted by Atlanta's public broadcasting stations, WABE and PBA 30 and by two religious organizations that work against sex trafficking in Atlanta, 12Stone Church and Street GRACE.The Candy Shopis a bizarre, fairy-tale-like story, where a young boy rescues a younger girl from an evil older man, who mysteriously turns the girls into candy and sells them.
3. Another example of the rescue narrative in news documentaries isNew York Timesjournalist Nicholas Kristof's videoThe Face of Slavery(Kristof2009).