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...

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...

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

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...

Through divorce, adoption and second marriages, none of the children in the Van Wijk family have the same biological parents.

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

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...

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...

Actually, Tomas knows his parents. Born in Brazil in 1993 and adopted from there, he now lives with them in the Netherlands. Now he is faced with the...

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.