Birth Movies

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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

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

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

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...

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

More than one in ten mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Using her own dark experience, the author endeavours to find the key to a better...

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

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

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...

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

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

The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

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 Born at Home documentary explores and uncovers the empowering journey of homebirth, shedding light on the often overlooked and misunderstood...

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...