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1) Lion
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Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
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Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign babies. The six women are fed up with the long delays of the adoption system in the United States and have the common desire to adopt a child. Includes a Latina mother who is certain that her baby will...
3) Adopted
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For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars, and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, Bibles, and the magic of penicillin; more recently they have hosted rock concerts and sent plane loads of grain. And in the last decade of the 20th century they arrived and took babies home with them. First there was Angelina, then...
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In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, this deeply moving documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. Of the roughly 80,000 girls who have been adopted from China since 1989, the film follows four teenagers: Haley, Jenna, Ann, and Fang. These four American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of self-awareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, 'Who am I?' They...
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Host Lisa Ling examines the consequences of China's two-decade-old, one-child policy, as it is commonly called. To curb the country's exploding population, China limits most families to one child, or in certain circumstances, two children. Due to cultural, social and economic factors, traditional preference leans toward boys, so girls are often hidden, aborted or abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands of girls end up in orphanages across China....
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"Jud and Elizabeth Curry are raising seven biological children and five adopted ones with special needs from China and Vietnam. Hayden & her family is a documentary that gives an intimate, nuanced look into the Curry's adoption journey -- struggles, joys and unique parenting philosophy. It explores themes of alternative parenting, challenges of special needs adoption and the motivations that drive the to transform lives of others. By making a case...
9) Stuck
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Documentary film that uncovers the personal, real-life stories of children and parents navigating a roller-coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system. The lives of four children's individual voyages from orphanages in their native countries to their homes with families in the United States, revealing along the way the intense hope and disappointment they experience on the odyssey to unite as families.
10) Twin sisters
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"In 2003, two babies were found in a cardboard box in a Chinese village and adopted into two different corners of the world. One of them to a little village in Norway, surrounded by high mountains and deep fjords. The other one to a big city in the USA. The adoptive parents had no idea that there was a twin sister. Their sisterhood was meant to be kept a secret. However, destiny had other plans. The film tells the remarkable story of the twin sisters...
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Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE fuses the story of the Diaz family learning to love with extremely rare archive footage of science experiments that explore parent child love. The science of love has an intriguing and dark past. Experiments on monkeys, birds and even human children have contributed to science's knowledge of love's inner workings. Director Sarah McCarthy weaves extraordinary footage of these experiments...
13) Find me
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Three families who have adopted children from China return to China in search of the children's birth families.
14) Kids' r!ghts
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Filmmakers Michael Dudko and Olga Rudnieva question whether everyone has the right to become a parent after they personally witness Sir Elton John's own failed attempt to adopt a child. Their investigation leads them through the Himalayas, the urban slums of Ukraine, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States where they learn about the corruption behind adoption practices. They address the need for education and training to ensure that a child's...
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