Birth Movies

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

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...

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

A lonely man finds himself in trouble when a malevolent force begins to pursue him, forcing him to confront the beginnings and endings of his life.

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

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

This movie charts the three most important questions regarding birth: 1. What makes a safe birth? 2. What disrupts a birth? 3. What do birth...

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...

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...

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him...

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

Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one hand and another in his stomach - the birth has...

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

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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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

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...

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.