Birth Movies

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

Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs....

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...

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds...

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a...

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 young aging actress reconnects with her former scene partner to ask a vital favor that could change the course of her career.

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...

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an...

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

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this...

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 story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

Casiopea is the journey to life itself. A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind: What happens before/after life?

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

"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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and...

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...