Realized Dreams

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

In SFRJ, the state officially takes care of all it's citizens. Every child is a good little pioneer. However, in reality no one (especially not the st...

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

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...