Birth Filmes

Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.

Featuring experts in their fields and raw and moving footage, this documentary makes a case for increased autonomy in women's choices for childbirth.

Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

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

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

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part...

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a...

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...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this...

"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 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.

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

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...

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...

A successful but isolated young woman, stalked by grief, is haunted inside her own body - until a final, brutal revelation shatters everything she...

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...

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.

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter...