Birth Movies

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...

A short Disney film on what planning for a family is and how it works.

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

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...

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

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...