The True Cost is a documentary about the global fashion industry, focusing on fast fashion and its impacts on workers, supply chains and the environment. It follows garment workers, activists and company representatives to show how low prices are linked to labour and ecological pressures.

Use in class

This documentary is well suited to teaching sustainability, supply chain management and business ethics. It allows students to trace value chains, consider living wages and examine trade offs between cost, speed and social impact, and can be paired with exercises on responsible sourcing policies.

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