Birth Movies

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

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 story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face...

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...

A short horror film about a large spider decoration come to life seemingly only to induce terror for one lonely, clumsy, and easily frightened girl.

Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.