Birth Movies

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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...

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...

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

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

Az is seven years old girl lives in small village with her parents. Az soon will have baby sister. It is the most joyful moment for her life. But...

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

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

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

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child.

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

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

"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...

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...

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She...

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...

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...

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