Pregnancy and Birthing Movies.
Birthtime
$12 with 20% off
Birthtime - 2021 Australian documentary
I've partnered with Birth Time so you can watch the documentary for just $12 (20% off).
Click on the link below and use the Coupon Code: CICADA20 at checkout.
BORN AT HOME
Depending on Screening
Where and how women choose to birth matters. Born at Home is a stunning documentary film exploring what it takes to have a positive and transformative birth experience.
DJÄKAMIRR
Depending on Screening
Filmed in remote Arnhem Land, DJÄKAMIRRfollows Ḻäwurrpa and Sarah on a unique journey through ancestral time, country and culture. As mutual trust develops between the two women, they hope to empower
Yolŋu and reclaim 60,000 years of birthing culture from the stronghold of Western medicine. This is their story of working with community to pilot the training of djäkamirr- the caretakers of pregnancy and birth.
Microbirth
$7.63 to rent
Amazing information on the gut of the unborn child and seeding that occurs during birth
Microbirth is a 60 minute documentary exploring the latest scientific research into the microscopic events that happen during childbirth. These events could have life-long consequences for the health of our children and potentially impact the future of mankind.
The Business of Being Born
$14.99
The Business of Being Born - Ricky Lake's (Go Ricky!) Documentary about the business and financial side of the birthing industry in America
Birth as we know it
Free
A call to Conscious Birth. All over the world, people love this film’s open invitation to transform Birth, to evolve as a species through birthing our young in peace, gifting them with the imprint of bliss and empowerment.
The Big Stretch
$7 to rent
The Big Stretch DVD presents a fresh insight into the amazing journey each woman takes in becoming a mother. Women in different stages of pregnancy and preparing for a natural birth, reflect (with their partners) on how they and ‘stretched’ in everyway – emotionally, physically and spiritually. You are invited to become intimately engaged, share in the transformation, and follow their stories to the first moments and days after birth.
Orgasmic Birth
$7.60
Powerful, passionate and thought provoking, with commentary by a dozen preeminent health professionals and 11 women and their partners who share their birthing journey, Orgasmic Birth dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations. The women in the film are transformed by the power of their own bodies. or Joyous, sensuous and revolutionary, Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Witness the passion as birth is revealed as an integral part of woman's sexuality and a neglected human right.
Birth Story
$13.00
Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm. They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation’s approach to childbirth.
Forty years ago Ina May led the charge away from isolated hospital birthing rooms, where husbands were not allowed and mandatory forceps deliveries were the norm. Today, as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section, she fights to preserve her community’s hard-won knowledge. With incredible access to the midwives’ archival video collection, the film not only captures the unique sisterhood at The Farm Clinic–from its heyday into the present–but shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it–unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring.
The Face of Birth
$3.94
Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for?
The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.
In Utero
$8.99
IN UTERO brings together for the first time convincing data that explains that we are not only our genes but a product of our environment as well.
Through enlightening and oftentimes poignant interviews with experts and pioneers, IN UTERO paints a complex tapestry of the human experience from conception to birth. Tapping into cultural myths, popular movies, and technological trends, the film demonstrates how our experiences in utero – particularly traumatic events – preoccupy us throughout our lives, impacting our decisions and shaping society.
What Babies Want
Free
Research is now showing that the way babies are welcomed into the world has a profound impact on their later aptitude to make compassionate and meaningful connection with others as they grow. This film, narrated by Noah Wyle ("E.R."), explores the consciousness of infants, through cutting edge science, ancient cultures and traditional customs, making a strong case for ensuring that babies have every opportunity to bond with their parents at birth.
Laboring Under An Illusion
$9.99
There are many childbirth films and many media literacy films. This is both -- perhaps the most useful, entertaining, and educational film you will encounter on either topic.
Why Not Home?
$9.99
“Why Not Home? is a thoughtful look at complex issues. It’s down to earth style puts a human spin on the contentious topic of home birth. I hope that every expectant parent, as well as medical and nursing students see this film. There is something for everyone in this beautifully done film.” — Robin Elise Weiss, PhD, MPH, LCCE and President of the Lamaze Board
Trial of Labor
Free
Trial of Labor follows a small group of pregnant women and their journeys back to trusting themselves and their bodies after previous births ended in unplanned surgery.
Each woman has chosen to plan a vaginal birth after Cesarean, and the uncertainty of their imminent births evokes in each a personal reckoning: finding a path through unresolved feelings and difficult decisions to the ultimate, unpredictable event of childbirth.
Heads Up
$8.39
From executive producer, Elliot Berlin and the Informed Pregnancy Project: A breech baby is born nearly every four minutes in the United States. Until the year 2000, a woman could opt to birth her breech baby vaginally or via surgery. Then, in 2001, a study came out that took away one of those options. The study was later found to be faulty, but the damage was already done--vaginal breech birth was almost completely eliminated from medical school training and from delivery rooms.
A Breach in the System
Free
A woman wants to give birth to her breech baby in a hospital. They say she has to have a caesarean section—this inspiring documentary about her attempt to birth naturally against all odds.
Karin Ecker’s interest in social issues has brought international credits for her filmmaking plus photographic art. From filming European children exploring environmental issues in the Bahamas to physically handicapped people scuba diving in the Egyptian Sea. She now brings her lens to the issue of childbirth choices in Australia. She intends to use this film as a tool to support the voice of ‘woman’.