Adoption Movies

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...

Uplifting tale of Staten Island woman who creates modern underground railroad and rescues 2,000 dogs condemned to death in Amish Country puppy mills....

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10...

Richard, a homosexual man, decides to adopt a child named Juan. As the child becomes accustomed to his new home, he continues to suffer from the...

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 orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

The brutally entitled Don't Be Like Brenda (1973) is an eight-minute lecture to young women, telling them not to be sexually promiscuous like the...

"Complexity" is about a young woman stuck in a place of complete uncertainty. When she meets Scott, a man who will turn her world upside down and...

When are you ready to find out who you really are? At the age of 10, adopted Russian children Grego and Alexa Ammon are rocked by the murder of their...

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary...

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.

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

A GIRL LIKE HER is the real story of 'sex and the single girl'. It reveals the hidden history of over a million young women who became pregnant in...

This feature documentary tells the complex and touching story of Winnipeg city councilor Glen Murray and his 17-year-old adopted son Mike, whose...

The story of a young orphan who is lead on a journey through China to be united with her parents to-be.

In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.