Midwives

In 1789 Maine, a man is found frozen in the Kennebec River. Respected midwife and healer Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine...

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and...

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved...

In a remote fishing island in the '50s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn...

Savannah’s moss-covered forests, with all its whispering winds and enchanted branches, are alive to little Bertie Bee Hooks, the gifted...

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent...

In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

The experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?

In the second part of the historical thriller, midwife Gesa succeeds in becoming the first female medical student to be admitted to Vienna's General...

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.