Birth Movies

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

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

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

To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha...

It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other...

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

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.

Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and...

Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.

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...

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

Casiopea is the journey to life itself. A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind: What happens before/after life?

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

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

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

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

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

Mary tries to find a way to escape her loneliness by conceiving a child.