Birth Movies

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.

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.

“Birth” sings of mixed emotions of love and separation in a gloomy setting. As the emotions after the breakup become excessive and the...

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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...

The Born at Home documentary explores and uncovers the empowering journey of homebirth, shedding light on the often overlooked and misunderstood...

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...