Family History Movies

Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal...

Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme...

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and...

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

It was aboard the legendary and sturdy Peugeot 504 and Renault 12 that most North African families made the "route du bled," a ritual return to their...

65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten along well with each other their entire lives. And...

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in...

On the military road construction site, on the pastures of Lessinia, writer Carlo Stuparic wrote to his brother Giani. The film celebrates his...

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

At the end of the 1960s, Vanesa’s parents fled the Franco-regime’s deep poverty to pursue their dream in the Netherlands. Working their...

In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.

The first of these traces the words of Louis Pereira's grandmother, delving into his childhood and memories of the past.

Amarr Coleman, a successful Chicago-based artist who has returned home to Kentucky after the passing of his beloved grandmother, Linda Coleman, finds...

Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant...

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

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...

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.