Birth Movies

Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs....

This cinema-verite-style documentary interweaves the pregnancy and childbirth of a young woman with the lingering death of a cancer patient to...

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in...

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As...

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him...

When a young boy forms an unusual connection with his late grandmother, his mother's refusal to believe spirals their lives into chaos.

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child.

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce...

A doctor allergic to the human touch finds his salvation in writings tattooed on the body of a dead poet.

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

When desperate times call for desperate measures, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Officers are available to help with the complexities of childbirth...

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

The everyday life of midwives unfolds on the threshold where new life is born and life may fade away. The film shows how midwives support couples...

Exploring the revitalization of traditional birthing practices in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, the film blends personal stories of...