Birth Movies

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

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an...

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

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...

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...

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

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...

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

It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other...

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

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.

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...

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.

After painfully passing a kidney stone, a slob discovers that a new breed of monster has invaded his home with deadly intentions.

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...

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...