Birth Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Mary tries to find a way to escape her loneliness by conceiving a child.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...