Calcutta is My Mother is an adoption story of loss, gain, and identity. It tells the story of Reshma McClintock, an adoptee who was born and abandoned in Calcutta, India, and adopted in Portland, Oregon.

Closure is a documentary about the adoption experience from an adoptee’s perspective. It follows Angela Tucker, an African American transracial adoptee who was adopted from foster care at the age of one.

Father Unknown is an example of artistic style in documentary filmmaking. Directed by David Quint, the film spotlights the process of ancestral healing. It follows a man and his estranged father as they travel to an orphanage in Switzerland, haunted by the story of an abandoned boy.

A Girl Like Her is a documentary film produced and directed by author and visual artist, Ann Fessler. It documents the stories of women who became pregnant and were banished to maternity homes to give birth and surrender their babies for adoption during the 1950s and 1960 in the US.