Midwife Movies

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small village near Chemnitz for almost 20 years,...

The heroine is a traveler between worlds and times. Between the authorities of 1813, the church and science, Rosa Koelbl remains a stranger. The time...

The experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?

Savannah’s moss-covered forests, with all its whispering winds and enchanted branches, are alive to little Bertie Bee Hooks, the gifted...

Louis Maltais loves challenges. At 27, this ex-circus artist begins his training to become the first male midwife in Quebec. During 4 years, the...

In 1789 Maine, a man is found frozen in the Kennebec River. Respected midwife and healer Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine...

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 father-to-be is trying to protect his young family from a strange entity and three dubious midwives.

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

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