Browse › Family documentaries.


Popular Family documentaries.

A Family on Probation

A small mistake affects an entire family

All My Babies: A Midwife’s Own Story

Both educational tool and poetic portrait of a black midwife and childbirth in the Deep South

Something Other Than Other

New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up

My Girl Can Fight

Father and daughter in East Los Angeles discover they are fighting for each other inside and outside the ring

Bread

Guatemalan brothers Edwin and Edson crush rocks with their father so their family has enough to eat


Family documentaries A-Z.

A Family on Probation

A small mistake affects an entire family

All My Babies: A Midwife’s Own Story

Both educational tool and poetic portrait of a black midwife and childbirth in the Deep South

Bread

Guatemalan brothers Edwin and Edson crush rocks with their father so their family has enough to eat

Dedicated to My Family

What I believed was a "perfect family"

Hope: One Mother’s Story

The story of a mother who struggles to get back on her feet to take care of her children

Los Trivinos de Huasco

An experimental, 16 minute black-and-white documentary

Love Inventory

An Israeli filmmaker seeks his missing sister, uncovering a secret that changes his family forever

My Girl Can Fight

Father and daughter in East Los Angeles discover they are fighting for each other inside and outside the ring

Nails

There are women in London's Brixton whose fingernails recall village life in Vietnam

Reel Works: Multifaceted

My film is about the way people wear masks in society to hide their emotions.

Reel Works: So It Goes

My search to discover who my father really is while at the same time telling the story of his life

Something Other Than Other

New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up

The Best Part of Everything

A family’s evolution as the children face the real world and the parents prepare for an empty nest and retirement

Tovarisch I Am Not Dead

The past may be buried, but it is never dead

Until Next Year

In a hidden beach town, on the last day of summer, three generations recount stories of past seasons

Wait For Me

Explores the memories of John, a young man who set off on a bicycle trip to India to find himself

A Working Mom

A divorced mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia

Browse All Documentary Films »

Search


Films by category.

Films By Category: 9/11 Documentaries, Adventure & Exploration Documentaries, AIDS & HIV Documentaries, Alien Documentaries, Animal Documentaries, Architecture & Engineering Documentaries, Art & Design Documentaries, Baseball Documentaries, Basketball Documentaries, Business & Globalization Documentaries, Cat Documentaries, Celebrity Documentaries, China Documentaries, Classical Music Documentaries, Comedy Documentaries, Crime Documentaries, Cuba Documentaries, Dance Documentaries, Dinosaur Documentaries, Dog Documentaries, Drugs, Recovery, & Addiction Documentaries, Education Documentaries, Environmental Documentaries, Family Documentaries, Fashion Documentaries, Finance & Globalization Documentaries, Food Documentaries, Football Documentaries, Gay, Lesbian, & Sexuality Documentaries, Genocide Documentaries, Health Documentaries, Hip Hop, Rap, R&B, Soul Documentaries, Historical Documentaries, Homelessness & Poverty Documentaries, Human Interest Documentaries, Human Rights Documentaries, Immigration Documentaries, Jazz Documentaries, Law & Justice Documentaries, Law Enforcement & Military Documentaries, Michael Jackson Documentaries, Money & Finance Documentaries, Movies, Media, & Theatre Documentaries, Museum Documentaries, Music Documentaries, Mysteries & Unexplained Documentaries, Nature Documentaries, North Korea Documentaries, Oil & Energy Documentaries, Peace Documentaries, Political Documentaries, Race, Culture, & Identity Documentaries, Religion & Spirituality Documentaries, Rock n Roll Documentaries, Science Documentaries, Sex Documentaries, Shark Documentaries, Society Documentaries, Space Documentaries, Sports Documentaries, Technology Documentaries, Terrorism Documentaries, War Documentaries, Whale Documentaries, Women's Rights Documentaries, Writing, Literature, & the Written Word Documentaries, X-Treme Sports Documentaries

Recent Films: 16 Days In China,  25 Million Pounds,  39 Pounds of Love,  6 (and a half) Secrets of Love,  9/11 Press For Truth,  9/12: From Chaos To Community,  The A Factor,  A Family on Probation,  A Hero For All: Nelson Mandela’s Farewell,  A Horse Connection

Recent News: What’s Up, Docs?,  Hulu’s David—SnagFilms—Gets a Bigger Stick,  “Bag” It!,  Magnolia is “Still Here”,  “LYNCHthree” to be Financed by Fans,  Do We Really Want to “Live in Public”?,  “The Bengali Detective” Tries to Outsmart Us,  DocuWeeks Announces Lineup,  Michael Moore is a Governor,  Google Doc?