Child Welfare Movies

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes...

Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy about Flanagan’s...

In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system.

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover...

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their...

Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When the older sister uncovers her...

On June 12, 2019, the Committee to Investigate Violence in Youth Care presented its final report. The conclusions were startling. Kim Feenstra set...

In the big city of Bengaluru, schools are reopening after 2 years of virtual classes due to COVID-19. A little girl named Sukhi is still asleep...

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her...

Fighting to reunite with their children, 'Tough Love' chronicles the lives of two parents with cases in the United States child welfare system as...