Family History Movies

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.

How much of ourselves have we left behind in words meant for others? Letters explores the secrets, confessions, and hidden truths sealed within...

Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society,...

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

A filmmaker embarks on a personal journey to document her father’s old neighborhood through her own perspective. Accompanied by her...

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

After 21 years I return to my city of birth in order to find out what would have occured to my family if we hadn't fled the war.

In 1936, the Kiel dentist Dr. Rudolf Schultz bought a film camera to capture the development of his son Dieter. Over the years, many film rolls were...

A short film about love, heritage and discovering a place where the heart feels at home.

The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over...

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...