Birth Movies

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at...

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

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl...

Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.

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

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...

The hallucinogenic and nightmarish results of one man's abuse of spray-paint and inhalable substances.

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

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

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...

Exploring the revitalization of traditional birthing practices in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, the film blends personal stories of...

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...