Birth Movies

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

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

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...

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

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

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is...

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

Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face...

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an...

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...

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 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...

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

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

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...

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...

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

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

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