Show of the week: Tales From the Organ Trade

David Cronenberg narrates this unblinking documentary on the black-market trade in human organs.

The black-market trade in human organs is a $500 million global business that’s easy to condemn. But what if you’d spent years on dialysis and your kidneys were shutting down? Or what if selling a kidney could liberate your family from a slum? Film director David Cronenberg narrates this unblinking documentary, which tracks the organ trade from Filipino villages where every man bears a kidney-removal scar to hospital beds where desperate patients weigh breaking the law. The stories might just scramble your own moral calculus. Monday, Nov. 4, at 9 p.m., HBO

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