Family History Movies

My mother has died. Her name was Maria. Her children, we, Raúl and Santiago, discover among the objects left by our mother hundreds of...

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

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers the figure of her father, who passed away when she was still very young. Thirty years...

A girl and her grandmother celebrate a birthday on a summer day in Maine.

A young filmmaker accompanies his grandfather– a veteran of the Vietnam War– to Fairbanks, to dedicate his unit flag to a new generation...

Frankie Wallach, 25-year-old director, is fascinated by her grand-mother Julia, 94 years old, her death camp survivor story and her joyful...

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Lino Santos Gomes, the grandfather of director Barbara Marques, will move in with his family. Videos were...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence....

When she realizes that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is losing her sight, the director decides to explore the bond that unites them...

School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory environment and to her own family history.

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

Revolves around a dining table and its purpose within the house.

The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without territory and written language, wandering between...

A retired Canadian professional wrestler from a very famous family recounts an amazing life in the ring and discovers an unexpected new family...

Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former...