Birth of a Family (2017)

(0) based on 0 votes
Over several decades, at least 20,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes in Canada and adopted out to non-Indigenous families. Now, four siblings come together for the first time to build the family ties they were once denied.
Directors
Release Date
May 02, 2017
Runtime
01h 19m
Genre
Available in streaming on

Over several decades, at least 20,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes in Canada and adopted out to non-Indigenous families. Now, four siblings come together for the first time to build the family ties they were once denied.

Movies like Birth of a Family

Coming Home

This documentary reveals the impacts of the Sixties Scoop, a period in which a series of Canadian policies enabled child welfare authorities to take, or “scoop up,” Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in white foster homes. Explore Indigenous resilience through narrative sovereignty as experienced through the Little Bird series’ Indigenous creatives, cast, crew & community members.
Search similar movies
8.5
Coming+Home
Coming Home

2023

Search similar movies
Meadowlarks

The film tells the story of four Cree siblings, Connie, Marianne, Gwen, and Anthony, separated as babies through Canada’s notorious Sixties Scoop, which saw indigenous children taken from their homes to be adopted by white families. Excited and curious, but also scared and afraid of rejection, they agree to meet for the first time over a holiday weekend in the mountains of Banff.
Search similar movies
5.0
Meadowlarks
Meadowlarks

2025

Search similar movies
Hello Quo

Collecting hours of previously unseen footage and classic live material with full exclusive access to all band members this is the definitive story of a band that has done and seen it all. As well as full access to the band, Hello Quo! Also features input from a host of the biggest names in rock including: Brian May of Queen, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Thin Lizzy, Buzzcocks, Slade, Paul Weller, Sir Cliff Richard and Midge Ure. The documentary also exclusively features the moment when the original line up of the band met again for the first time in over 30 years. A truly poignant reunion, after years of legal wrangling, saw the band clear the air but also plug in and play together once again... This Access All Areas Collector s Edition includes 3 hours of astonishing never seen before Quo footage!
Search similar movies
5.6
Hello+Quo
Justin Bieber: Limitless

Justin Bieber is the teen idol of his generation - a young musician with the world at his feet. The transformation from small-town Canadian boy to international superstar happened almost overnight for recording artist Justin Bieber.
Search similar movies
1.0
Justin+Bieber%3A+Limitless
Justin Bieber: Limitless

2014

Search similar movies
Dharma Rising

The films looks through the eyes of the first generation of Western Dharma teachers at the myriad issues Buddhism faces and how it is adapting within a culture that runs on the engines of competition and greed, where many consider cruelty to be kindness and ignorance to be knowledge. But throughout its history Buddhism has adapted to new cultures with almost chameleon-like ease. So if its past is any judge, the sublime path our colonial forefathers dubbed Buddhism has begun a migration that over time will leave it, and quite possibly modernity itself, greatly transformed.
Search similar movies
Dharma+Rising
Dharma Rising

2011

Search similar movies
Creating Carrie

Take a peek behind the making of the 2013 remake of Carrie, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.
Search similar movies
6.2
Creating+Carrie
Creating Carrie

2014

Search similar movies
Why Elvis?

Features interviews with The King's friends, neighbors, band members, first record producer, and fans, as well as a never-before-released interview with Presley himself.
Search similar movies
Why+Elvis%3F
Why Elvis?

2005

Search similar movies
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up

This short documentary provides discussion of how the fat suits and other make-up effects were done for the film as well as considerations of exactly the look. There's also some test footage of the make-up effects and interviews with Paltrow, Black, the Farrellys, Paltrow and Paltrow's body double, Ivy.
Search similar movies
6.3
Shallow+Hal%3A+Seeing+Through+the+Make-up
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up

2002

Search similar movies
Neanderthal: The Mystery of the Bruniquel Cave

Discovered in 1990 in the Aveyron Gorges, near the village of Bruniquel, Bruno Kowalczewski discovers a cave which shows evidence of being inhabited by Neanderthals as far back as 47,000 years ago, with stalagmites arranged in circles. What significance do these limestone rings have? From when exactly do they date? For fear of damaging the remains, the excavations were stopped in the late 1990s, leaving these questions unanswered. Beginning in 2014, a new team relaunches research into the cave. Using the current uranium-thorium method, calcite samples are dated to 176,500 years ago, revealing the construction as one of the oldest ever discovered underground. This stone circle is surprisingly complex. How was it built and what was it used for? This is a story of a discovery that brings new elements to the capabilities of the Neanderthals.
Search similar movies
7.7
Neanderthal%3A+The+Mystery+of+the+Bruniquel+Cave
Neanderthal: The Mystery of the Bruniquel Cave

2019

Search similar movies
Trainwreck: The Real Project X

A night of drunken chaos rocks a quiet Dutch town in this shocking documentary about a teen's birthday invite that accidentally went viral on Facebook.
Search similar movies
5.9
Trainwreck%3A+The+Real+Project+X
Trainwreck: The Real Project X

2025

Search similar movies
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

A homemade flying saucer lifts off, and a 6-year-old boy might be inside. National panic ensues — but what truly happened? This documentary investigates.
Search similar movies
5.8
Trainwreck%3A+Balloon+Boy
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

2025

Search similar movies
Joh: Last King of Queensland

Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen reigned over Queensland for 19 tumultuous years (1968–1987). Hugely popular, he presided over enormous growth, but corruption raged under his tenure, as did electoral manipulation and often violent suppression of dissent. This film tells Joh’s story through rare archival footage and revelatory interviews, exploring a life shaped by a hard yakka, god-fearing upbringing on his family’s farm. Trump’s spectre is evoked in Joh’s famously mangled and meandering way of speaking – brilliantly dramatised by Richard Roxburgh – alongside his unyielding execution of power and the desperate denial of his final days in office.
Search similar movies
Joh%3A+Last+King+of+Queensland
Joh: Last King of Queensland

2025

Search similar movies
Cirquera

Diana Rutkus was born a nomad, but she learned this only years later. The daughter of a tightrope walker and trapeze artist mother and a lion tamer and drummer father, Diana spent her childhood between the circus tent and the trailer. Cirquera thus explores a search for a diffuse and fragmented history.
Search similar movies
Cirquera
Duran Duran: Unstaged

Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one of the most successful acts in the world during their performance at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.
Search similar movies
7.4
Duran+Duran%3A+Unstaged
Duran Duran: Unstaged

2014

Search similar movies
The Creeping Garden

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists. In recent years this curious organism has become the focus of much research in such areas as biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot engineering.
Search similar movies
5.4
The+Creeping+Garden
The Creeping Garden

2014

Search similar movies
The Yes Men Are Revolting

Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, government officials and a complacent media in a series of outrageous stunts designed to draw awareness to the issue of climate change.
Search similar movies
7.1
The+Yes+Men+Are+Revolting
The Yes Men Are Revolting

2014

Search similar movies
December Hide-and-Go-Seek

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and know the feel of his warmth on my skin when I hold him, there are moments when my feelings for him become vague and blank." - Takashi Ito
Search similar movies
5.2
December+Hide-and-Go-Seek
December Hide-and-Go-Seek

1993

Search similar movies
Triangle Fire

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.
Search similar movies
7.0
Triangle+Fire
Triangle Fire

2011

Search similar movies
Andrea Bocelli - A Night in Tuscany

A Night in Tuscany is the first DVD released by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli of a concert held in his native Tuscany, in 1997, highlighting the unique blend of Classical, Pop, and traditional Italian songs that made him a crossover success as an internationally acclaimed tenor. The concert takes place at the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa. Bocelli performs two opera duets with soprano Nuccia Focile during the concert, before singing Miserere with Italian rock star Zucchero, who discovered him, and Time To Say Goodbye with English soprano Sarah Brightman
Search similar movies
7.2
Andrea+Bocelli+-+A+Night+in+Tuscany
Andrea Bocelli - A Night in Tuscany

1997

Search similar movies
Louise Brooks

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Search similar movies
Louise+Brooks
Louise Brooks

1986

Search similar movies
California Dreamin': The Songs of The Mamas & The Papas

This special celebrates the harmonious pop-rock group, blending full-performance clips, rare home movies and exclusive interviews with the members.
Search similar movies
7.8
California+Dreamin%27%3A+The+Songs+of+The+Mamas+%26+The+Papas
California Dreamin': The Songs of The Mamas & The Papas

2005

Search similar movies
Monty Python's Spamalot

Documentary going behind the scenes of El Tricicle's adaptation of Monty Python's Spamalot.
Search similar movies
5.6
Monty+Python%27s+Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot

2009

Search similar movies
The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground

After a freak accident, experienced caver George Linnane was left with multiple life-threatening injuries within Britain’s deepest cave system. This drama documentary set in the Brecon Beacons tells the story of his remarkable 54-hour-long rescue. With George’s life hanging in the balance, a team of over 300 individuals came to the rescue, from Wales and across the UK, to try and save his life and bring him safely to the surface.
Search similar movies
8.0
The+Rescue%3A+54+Hours+Under+the+Ground
The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground

2022

Search similar movies
Life to the Limit

From the Revolution of Dignity to full-scale war: successful Ukrainian film producers took up arms to defend the country and cameras to record the gruesome reality. From the fragments of memories and their own film archive, veterans Pavlo and Yurko assemble a mosaic of the causes and consequences of today's Russian-Ukrainian war - from the end of 2013 to today. The authors went to the front as volunteers, visited the hotspots of Donbas, created the home-made drone "Furia", which is now named after one of the best air reconnaissance units. And all this time they continued to create in order to show the world the truth about the terrible war that became possible in the 21st century.
Search similar movies
Life+to+the+Limit
Life to the Limit

2023

Search similar movies
Del Potro, el último match point

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
2.0
Del+Potro%2C+el+%C3%BAltimo+match+point
Del Potro, el último match point

2023

Search similar movies
Uaka

In Xingu, the Quarup - a great festive event in which men steal the divine fire, spreading it over the earth - is celebrated every year in the Kamaiurá village. Nine tribes take part in the ritual to the sound of uruá flutes, where the pajés (shamans) Tucuma, Sapaim and Prepori, among others, are present.
Search similar movies
Uaka
My Body, My Rules

Far from the dictates of current female beauty, MBMR focuses on these other bodies, those who take up space, those that stain, biters, those who devour, those who enjoy as they wish, those age and those who are self-transformed, those who are free and wild. Eight people will reveal the magic,cruel, sensuel, powerful relationship they have with their own bodies.The adventure of the film is multiple: the objective is to give voice and images to women whose body or sexuality is seen as non-standard, unseen or without speaking. The film will highlight possible resistance through an intimate portrait gallery, collective experimentations, tantra, exchange of fluids and knowledge, rituals… A strong political and feminist manifest about body politics, female sexuality and its representation, as well as about diversity and various forms of sexual desire.
Search similar movies
0.5
My+Body%2C+My+Rules
My Body, My Rules

2017

Search similar movies