Birth Movies

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

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

Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who...

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...

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...

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

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter...

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....

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

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...

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...

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

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...

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

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...

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...

Az is seven years old girl lives in small village with her parents. Az soon will have baby sister. It is the most joyful moment for her life. But...