family history movies page 8

Think About the Beautiful Future Ahead (2018)
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Documentary

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

Tale of Two Mothers (2019)
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Documentary

When Jamie Diamond bought a discarded German family photo album from 1938, she did not expect to make art with it. But upon bringing a child into...

Memory Box (2021)
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Documentary, Family

To open a photographs box is to travel through past and present, thinking about the future.

Charlene White: Empire's Child (2021)
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Documentary

Charlene White embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover the roots of her connection to the British Empire in a bid to find out if we can ever...

My Lovely Grandma (2020)
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Documentary

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

The Limits of My World (2019)
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Documentary

THE LIMITS OF MY WORLD follows a nonverbal young man’s transition from the school system into adulthood. Brian has autism and faces the daily...

Do the Dead Speak to Us? (2019)
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Documentary

Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez...

Cómo vivir toda una vida con apenas un te quiero (1969)
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Documentary, Drama

Diaspora Ethiopia (1969)
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The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed...

Caribou in the Archive (2018)
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Documentary

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

Heidi in China (2020)
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Documentary

In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about her...

Video Blues (2019)
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Documentary

Emma reviews old tapes on VHS, which show faded family memories of those distant 80s, when she was still a child. While recalling the trips to the...

Man on the Bus (2019)
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Documentary

Can a secret change who you are? Mysterious events unfold and reveal how Martha, a Polish holocaust survivor, managed to lead a double life in...

I have KIEL to tell (2018)
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Documentary

In 1936, the Kiel dentist Dr. Rudolf Schultz bought a film camera to capture the development of his son Dieter. Over the years, many film rolls were...

Goodbye, Table Manner (2018)
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Drama, Family

Revolves around a dining table and its purpose within the house.

All My Fathers (2010)
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Documentary

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...

Ines, Memories of a Lifetime (2014)
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Documentary

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

Lost in the Bewilderness (2014)
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Documentary

Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapped at age five from his native Greece, and...

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (1975)
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Documentary, History

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

More Than a Face in the Crowd (2013)
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Documentary, History, Family

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...