Birth Movies

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...

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

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...

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

A successful but isolated young woman, stalked by grief, is haunted inside her own body - until a final, brutal revelation shatters everything she...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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

The everyday life of midwives unfolds on the threshold where new life is born and life may fade away. The film shows how midwives support couples...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.