Birth Movies

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in...

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...

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...

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

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

Set in a poor Québec neighbourhood during the 1930s, a young woman begins the dire labour of birthing.

A short Disney film on what planning for a family is and how it works.

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

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.

Women from widely different cultures speak out about giving birth, and about the traumas they have experienced when the birth does not go as expected.

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

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...

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

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...

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

From the seventh month of pregnancy, the five senses of the baby in utero become functional. In the closed universe that is his, a formidable sensory...