World's Most Dangerous Roads - Benin: Blood Cotton

In northern Benin, each year from October to January, DRAMANE and ZACHARI, drivers of rattling trucks survive only to the rhythm of the cotton harvest. Like them, hundreds of drivers are trying to profit from this white gold which represents nearly 40% of BENIN's exports to rich countries. But in this very poor country, the cultivation of cotton dramatically impoverishes the soils of the countryside ... Because the immaculate flower requires astronomical quantities of water to grow ... water which in Benin is sorely lacking for the inhabitants who walk for kilometers on foot to find some ... In this painful context, ZACHARI fights to load the meager cotton crops with a rolling wreck ... DRAMAN he is seven days a week stuck behind the wheel of a huge truck, a "TITAN". He rushes to the ground, ignoring the pedestrians to deliver the port of COTONOU as quickly as possible. Even if his meager salary forces him to live on a small business, he is not the most miserable like those they meet on the road: The farmers and their children who work only to survive, the women who break stones under the blazing sun or the dockworkers who are paid twenty cents to carry a 200 kilogram bale of cotton.

[@slyfox8261]

The poor little kids have to work so hard... It hurts my heart... 😪😪😪

[@willbmw]

I don't know why, I just can't get enough of these documentaries. Thanks

[@graceachom]

True

[@PrisonPlanett]

Because you are inherently Psychopathic being a monkey. So we feel better from their pain and or less life

[@anniefoster7343]

Good to know how others survive in different parts of the continents,

[@mat4263]

I love Tony Comiti

[@krishpatel703]

Same here🙌

[@simwaduncan777]

Excellent documentaries. How I wish "new" uploads be made, instead of what has already been uploaded on Free Documentary channel under Deadliest Roads series.

[@nghngh5956]

OMG what a World and what a Life. My heart goes out to these people that’s all I have left to give. Sincerely May God Bless them for a better Life.

[@ctr289]

Sure, they have nothing to do with the life they have there.

[@truthunfolded1300]

There will always be great documentaries like these because the world is full of dangerous roads.

[@boaspendaishongwa5316]

Thanks to show us the world 🇳🇦👍

[@shawnaellcey6970]

Zachary has a sweet and loving wife! It was heartwarming to see her fuss over him! That child carrying the gravel however, was heartbreaking! What was she, two or three years old! Poor little baby!

[@travelingbytruck3028]

Спасибо за Ваш труд!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johncampbell685]

Great documentary. Very informative. Very well done!

[@arcadiomiguelrojascenteno2101]

Amazing. Asombroso documental,"crudo" y real.

[@tonynthala2513]

We don't even know where some of the cotton come from or what people go through to get it and earn a living. Good documentary for the new generation.

[@PauloHenrique-vh5nd]

Great documentary!!!

[@andrewthacker114]

Wonderful documentary, thanks very much.

[@suriaghazjohndunn5174]

Love these documentaries, thank you so much..

[@erickakompe9483]

May God Bless Zachari with a new truck or just getting employed to good employers with new trucks.

[@sonyabantick1707]

I respect their commitment to their familys what hard workers. It make you truly thankful for what I have not only for what I need but for what I get even if I don't really have to have it God bless you all 🙏💜🌞

[@jayeshkurdekar126]

@30.54 the tear stains.. It tells the story.. Really sad and feeling distraught

[@roshanbasheer7747]

Wow. Right on time🔥

[@ericngugikinyanjui9219]

There so many great things about africa. Its informative to show this but this one side of Africa. Mother Africa is rich, Infrascture has improved in most Areas of the continent. Its time we started telling our own narrative. There is more to Africa than Bad roads, mulnutrioned kids, and poverty

[@louiesantiago1085]

Re-upload, but it is a very nice documentary.

[@joseywilds3133]

I still don’t see the concept of having kids in this situation,

[@grandpasoldfilms3264]

Yet, they just don't stop....

[@ngwangjini7574]

Great new episode

[@lilianlilly9404]

Amman's third wife 🤣 when she says"I want a new dress"

[@zenithadvertising727]

I am from India. I'm sure u have a very nice & great team behind making these documentries. I request u to show the challanges during making (behind the scene)such difficult documentries

[@user-br5wg3sk9s]

أرفــــٍّـــــع رأسـٍّــــَِــــٍّــك فـَِـا نبيــَِــــٍّــك محمد صل الله عليه وسلم لبيك اللهم لبيك لبيك لا شريك لك لبيك 🇾🇪❤️✍️

[@younge252]

عليه الصلاه والسلام شكرا يا اختي 😇

[@monyetmonyet189]

Allah hu akbar

[@thedarkknightrises5692]

great doc

[@Jader13254]

Good work!

[@stephennjuru396]

This work of trucking requires tonnes of patience and dissatisfaction

[@Gumorisco11]

How can we help the families who are breaking rocks? To make gravel i really wanna help with some money but these documentary people never seem to reply to my comment wish i could give them my help

[@bend1119]

its because these are 10+ year old documentaries from tv. they do not make them but just post here for ad money

[@younge252]

if you want to help them u should go for urself there and help u never know what and whos getting paid doing it from tue internet imagine u fund warlord lol

[@Gumorisco11]

@@younge252 then i shall be king of the war lords 😁

[@younge252]

@@Gumorisco11 until they kidnap you and ask for ransom 😂😂

[@Gumorisco11]

@@younge252 but ill be the king

[@rajaindia6150]

May god bless them 🙏

[@juan_el38]

love the ducumentary

[@KingyHiatuses]

why do you continue to repost the same videos?

[@TooReal-ot3dk]

Its killing me

[@romella_karmey]

More Google Adsense revenue

[@kishorpatel9309]

Nice video 👍🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@ethiopiannewendeavor8867]

34:51 I feel bad for the poor mother.

[@ericreynolds74]

Is it just me or at 37:23 is the radiator stone cold plugged full of dust and dirt and mud and everything else?

[@rkinsey2197]

In all these documentaries, the weights are doubled or tripled, 130 kg lifts are near pro level. Tear jerking too, ppl having kids before they can feed them doesn't appeal well overall. Not much thinking expected from the audiences

[@kirwanaedward4517]

Here in Uganda, we Lost cotton growing 💗 in the early 70s, thax for Benin if they still do so

[@barryphillips7327]

Anywhere else in the world these trucks would forced OFF the road and CRUSHED, they are worn out unsafe especially the guy going thru villages at 100kph!!

[@younge252]

More like it will be piece of candy for them in developed roads

[@goransandstrom1402]

Tack för ett bra program kom ihåg att prenumerera och tumma upp nu

[@deepak316c]

Only true subscriber knows that it’s a repeat telecast

[@darianle190]

And yet we still watch. Over and Over...

[@karimvernon9925]

Real talk

[@KingyHiatuses]

WE ARE SICK OF IT !

[@mat4263]

Deepak sir you are a false subscriber

[@cdgotx_or]

I’ve seen this one. Duplicate upload?

[@aaroncross2366]

How good do we have it in the west? This is heart breaking

[@malika1831]

I will never complain again .

[@every1elsebutme124]

Mmmh have you seen south America documentaries..speak for yourself

[@r.t.c.speedcuber5417]

Is there new videos?? Not re-upload

[@hasnathasnat2875]

Nice🇵🇰🇸🇦🌹🙏

[@DRSURYAPRAKASHSURGEON]

There is something special about Africa 😍

[@colinstate]

30:10

[@colinstate]

34:40

[@colinstate]

Looks like a lovely place to live…

[@truesight.1547]

Bruh I feel bad for the guy on the yellow truck. I don't know if I could last driving that shit even an hour.

[@jaydawg3031]

Show me the world, Free documentary and Best Documentary youtube channels, are you all sharing the same videos? who was the original owners of these videos?

[@pal2011]

These are all pirated documentaries lol, this one is called Deadliest Journeys. You notice the pirates cut off the title.

[@romella_karmey]

@@pal2011 if it's pirated this will all be deleted by KZbin due to strict guidelines. But maybe they bought the license to upload it to their channels?

[@pal2011]

@@romella_karmey KZbin only deletes stuff if a copyright claim is made. I guess the copyright owners don't really care and/or want to have their content to be made free. I mean, it's a very educational show.

[@symw2169]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍👍

[@palsinghgrewal2522]

🙏🙏👍👍👍

[@bonfaceowino2193]

DRAMANE could maintain and sustain a very stable family and afford his generation quality health care and education were it not for going for second, third and more wives.

[@nancydrew1882]

Exactly! Too many children, too many wives!! That’s why the cycle of poverty goes on!

[@brunostein8314]

Tan rápidos pasan los trasporte por los pueblos muchos accidentes

[@mercyjepchirchir8908]

What a closing shot 😂😂

[@ilmikawish]

Nice

[@maryreyes2036]

I saw this episode by Free Documentaries.

[@murdanigecor9357]

👍👍👍👍

[@1miltond]

This is really sad there is no way we can understand what this people go true and true day after day and we can't judge because we are privileged just because we were lucky and of to be borne away from that this time

[@wildone505]

Here in 🇺🇸 someone would get mad because someone just look at their food.

[@seeker5968]

There is no dignity in poverty, and African woman are the most resilient and strongest in the world

[@younge252]

Indeed we have the most strongest females and most disciplined women in the world i love my african queens

[@myladcook4779]

They do some dangerous stuff over there.

[@Tammissa]

If they had better trucks, and roads it would be a lot easier for these men. But where to get the $ for new trucks, and the government doesn’t do anything about the road conditions. How Frustrating.

[@sofiandikampung721]

🤝🌐💝🇲🇾

[@lifeanimals4517]

🙋🙋

[@jreinel1966]

A lot of stupid people here in the U.S complain about how bad life is,ignorant people,they need to watch this videos to see what a real suffering in life is..!

[@kevinkevlar5634]

After making money by filming the village, Did you plan on how they can easily access water 💧 💧 🤔

[@patrickguillory-yy2gu]

This is so interesting, entertaining and sad😢❤…….Wish I was rich, I would spend lots of money to help these people 😢❤

[@helenm2169]

i dont understand...why dont they give them water??

[@kbchamz3877]

Because they don't have water and have to walk 3km to get to the well

[@prashanthbk3760]

It seems one driver is covering more miles hence has more wives.

[@colinstate]

Imagine choosing to raise 3 families with such small wages

[@X100CSD99]

It is even hard to raise one

[@nancydrew1882]

Some ppl can’t bear to let go of debilitating traditions.

[@karthikisfine1]

19:50 brings me tears. What the hell is the govt of Benin doing?

[@aldistapm2518]

Man, looking at the cotton farmers food makes me really sad. Even though my sadness mean nothing to them but i hope something better will come to those people Edited: I hope the film crew gave something (food, drinkable water or money) to these poor people

[@samueltoler7796]

Sad thing is, we're probably wearing some of that cotton.

[@catdooley4616]

@samueltoler7796 Unfortunately if we didn't wear it, they wouldn't have a job or they would have another job just as bad if not worse. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, as the old saying says.

[@lionzee1568]

How can I give the guy witn the old truck 250€ to fixed he truck

[@OriginalGaPeach]

This is old. NEW DOCUMENTARIES PLEASE

[@georgelmanole6699]

Subtitrare in limba romana , s-ar putea ?! MULȚUMESC MULT

[@marcioferreira2699]

👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@Shurot777]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@thomasalvarez2833]

(19:18) - " Git Yer Own Water Bitch, You're Standing In Some ! "

[@mufush]

Many strong men but cant digg boreholes

[@ManmohanSingh-kr8bx]

ਰਬ,ਬਖਸ਼ੈ,ਡਰਵੀਰ,,22,,ਤੋ,,

[@eddieed8617]

It's a copy paste from "free documentary"

[@tonymontana6368]

Zacari only has one truck but his old wife is just as expensive.

[@lilhope421]

48:15 The third wife look at the camera man like ? ( what you doing tonight ? )

[@ovilo1353]

🤣🤣🤣🤣Exactly my thoughts

[@nofatwamasha3475]

Ooh my,imgn someone starting to suffer from the day they were born till the end😭i don kniw why i came here

[@stallone0]

In the city we people waste so much water..we don't know the value of it.

[@koodykoo6115]

3 wives and he drives 7 day a week ? When does he have time to do fooki fooki ?

[@mikemarley2389]

My grandfather lost his arm in a cotton gin.

[@mohammedkarim3370]

This video stolen from other site .

[@dazuk1969]

I don't understand polygamy...having one wife can be hard enough at times, never mind 3. I do understand how hard these guys have to work for not much reward. Very humbling watching these.

[@johnhenrix3894]

why even have that many children?

[@lelostimulus9995]

I wonder who is the village elder? The guy in the tree at 32:33 or his twin at 32:40? They both seem like deep thankers and both rock the same beard so this is clearly a position of power between two intellectual dudes raised side by side. 🤓🥴

[@frankwerner6355]

That wife No. 3 is big trouble!

[@swastiksuvesh6032]

Why didn't the administration look after the roads and provide loans for new vehicles? Most of their trucks are of European origin. They could go for highly reliable Indian multi-axle trucks from Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, M&M, or Eicher Motors.

[@bernardwanjohi7201]

Africa my friend,the elites or leaders don't care

[@kusalliyanage829]

Those crappy indian trucks would not last a year there

[@arkadeepkundu5062]

@@kusalliyanage829 hello, Indian trucks are not crazy.

[@kusalliyanage829]

@@arkadeepkundu5062 yeah..they are worthless

[@hei38cuhc]

33:46

[@vanquynguyen8298]

Những chiếc xe tải hoạt động theo mô tả của Azit Nexin !

[@villagelightsmith4375]

Boil the water for the day ahead. One more nasty cut in a world that's full of them.

[@BRITTWOODNESHIE]

Please bring back the most dangerous ways to school.

[@sujitdebnath2361]

Translate what they say... instead of writing....those they says...

[@maerimoses6426]

African men with women 🙆🙆🙆

[@stephennjuru396]

ladies kneel before their godly husbands

[@ehothiafacility9276]

Lz6

[@olukayodemayomi5028]

African women are the best. Always supporting their man in addition to keeping the home. Here in the USA, I hear all these good for nothing women saying.."I am a strong independent woman" I just roll my eyes. These series is very addictive.

[@grateful_living]

The nerve of this comment 🤣🤣🤣

[@bobbykibe8693]

Bro, don't judge. Culture is not universal; it is relative to a particular location and none is better than the other as long as the practices are accepted.

[@henrybertolette2496]

Park at your place