Birth Movies

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

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 attenti...

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

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 filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and despera...

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...

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 duri...

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

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 coo...

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 interv...

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

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.

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...