Birth Movies

A young aging actress reconnects with her former scene partner to ask a vital favor that could change the course of her career.

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She...

"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...

Teo survives, isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs. It seems destiny has no other plans, than keeping Theo there, until...

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

Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, an experienced midwife who listens to them...

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

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

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

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

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...

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the...

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

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...

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

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing; a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl. The...