Little Pioneers

City of Children

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

1949

Memory Books

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family t

2008

Big Mama

Eighteen months in the life of 89 years old Viola Dees as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorities that she can care for her grandson, 9-year-old

2000

Julieta

The life and times of the mexican pianist Julieta García Rello, as told by her granddaughter.

2006

Les enfants de Vercheny

2021

Liyana

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

2017

Waiting for the Sun

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living i

2017

Geographies of Kinship

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their

2019

Gino: A Child of War

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

2023

The Children of Leningradsky

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Sovie

2005

Every Day After

Growing up in Masbate Province in the Philippines, Jary is neglected and shunned since the moment of his birth for one reason-- his appearance. His o

2023

The Blood of Yingzhou District

A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village c

2006

Kim Il Sung's Children

From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and Sout

2020

Tashi and the Monk

This moving documentary profiles a former Buddhist monk who runs a home for orphaned children in the Himalayas, and his relationship with its newest a

2015

La Babel des enfants perdus

2020

6 Weeks to Mother's Day

150 underprivileged and orphaned students in the remote jungle of Thailand attending the country's first democratic school prepare a special celebrati

2017

Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

1947

Children Gone to Poland

Tracing the footsteps of North Korean orphans who went to Poland during the Korean War, two women, one from the North and the other from the South, bo

2018

Hexenkinder

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the ti

2020

Kinshasa, générations Matuidi

2020