Adoption Movies

What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” this week’s moving new Op-Doc by...

An astounding exposé that gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an infamous American scientific experiment: the 1960s Neubauer-Bernard...

The lives of Nick, Avery, Walter, Chief Payne, Kelly Smith, and a few new characters are brought to the forefront a decade after the original...

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV,...

On a night like any other, Helena, a 12-year-old girl marked by troubles at home, is taken from her mother and placed into foster care. Now, she must...

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...

Three siblings are forced to band together when their mother informs them of her plan to adopt another child.

An intimate portrait of a real Modern Family: Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay couple with daughters birthed by their friend Rachel who's married with...

ᎠᏲᎧ is a portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a...

Lou Wilson returns from a few years of college to live at home again only to find that his parents have adopted a 12-year-old.

Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard set out to meet his biological father. Along the way, they realize that this is about much more than paying...

Ruben and Gio have been recently adopted by Evelyn and Memo. The four of them try to create a home where the past, the bad and good stories, and the...

Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film...

Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many...

After multiple disappointments, adoptive parents decide to explain to their child that they are going to give him up.

In this funny and moving documentary, acclaimed film-maker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother's conception after a dance in...

After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the months after the reunion, Dorothy and Joe must...

A probate lawyer handles the will and testament of his recently deceased elderly clients and uncovers a shocking secret about their middle-aged son's...