Filmakers - Adoption

Adoption

7 film(s) found

	The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez A 15-year-old brought up by a Mexican family while his mother was incarcerated in the U.S. as a Puerto Rican nationalist, finally comes to know his mother. more »
	The End of the Line, Orphan Trains The poignant, depression-age story of abandoned children from big cities who were sent West to live and work with farm families. It was the idea of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, as an alternative to institionalization. more »
	Little Brother, Little Sister Some people have very big hearts! We meet an Australian couple who have adopted several Ethiopian orphaned children. We see how they help the children overcome the pain of their past as they adjust to a new country. more »
	Looking for Victoria: An Argentine Story Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. Painful questions emerge: were her parents terrorists? Did they suffer more because they were Jewish? more »
	Precious Cargo: Vietnamese Adoptees Discover Their Past Operation Babylift in 1975 helped thousands of South Vietnamese children to escape to America where they were adopted. In their mid-twenties, the adoptees return to their birthplace in search of their roots. more »
	Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adoption This powerful film focuses on issues of race, culture and identity in families in which there have been transracial adoptions. more »
	Whose Child is This? After the Indian tribes were vanquished, the governments of the U.S. and Canada destroyed their cultures as well. For generations, youngsters were separated from their Indian parents and adopted by both well-meaning and exploitive adoptive families. This film reveals some of these complicated stories more »