Adoption Movies

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 fears...

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...

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 2...

During the pandemic, living under an extreme right-wing government, filmmakers Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa receive the news that would change their l...

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.

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

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...

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

Jackie Miller adopted her son, Scott, in the early 1970s. In 2008, Scott brought his mom to StoryCorps to ask her about that decision.

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...

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

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

When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins...

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

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 directors Glenn and...

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 overc...

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 project...

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