Birth Movies

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

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in...

A lonely man finds himself in trouble when a malevolent force begins to pursue him, forcing him to confront the beginnings and endings of his life.

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.

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

This movie charts the three most important questions regarding birth: 1. What makes a safe birth? 2. What disrupts a birth? 3. What do birth...

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.

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

After painfully passing a kidney stone, a slob discovers that a new breed of monster has invaded his home with deadly intentions.

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing; a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl. The...

From the seventh month of pregnancy, the five senses of the baby in utero become functional. In the closed universe that is his, a formidable sensory...