Birth Movies

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.

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

Featuring experts in their fields and raw and moving footage, this documentary makes a case for increased autonomy in women's choices for childbirth.

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 couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied...

Two female doctors – and close friends – work in an obstetrics and gynecology clinic. Jung-yeon is fed up with delivering and aborting...

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

When baby Sebastian is born on 12/12/12 everyone around him starts to die. Soon, his mother realizes that her son is the spawn of Hell.

Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.

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

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part...

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

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...

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...

A doctor allergic to the human touch finds his salvation in writings tattooed on the body of a dead poet.

A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to...

When a young boy forms an unusual connection with his late grandmother, his mother's refusal to believe spirals their lives into chaos.

Enter the world of undisturbed birth as 11 couples share their intimate personal journeys, facing their fears and moving through pain into the...

The lion mask comes to life & now must deal with the concept of learning aswell as what it means to be alive & what we do with the gift of life

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious...