"orphan"
Mother India: Life Through the Eyes of the Orphan
Narrated by Rebecca St. James (Grammy Award Winning Artist), Mother India is a compelling documentary capturing the stories of abandoned and orphaned kids living in India. For one week, David and Shawn stepped into the lives of 25 boys and girls living alongside the railway station in the southern town of Tenali (Andhra Pradesh). With over 31 milli..
Little Orphan Annie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on th..
Little Orphant Annie
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor a..
Orphans and Angels
The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby hostel, they date and she brings him home, where he offers Ecstasy with wine to her. Kim advises her..
The Two Orphans
REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl. Diane's father kills her husband and forces her to marry the Count de Linieres, who remains ignorant of Louise's existence. Louise is placed in the keeping of a peasant woman who has a child of her own, Henriette. Eighteen years later, th..
Orphans & Kingdoms
In writer/director Paolo Rotondo’s debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.
West by Orphan Train
It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America's not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were loaded on trains and sent west, where they were presented "for the picking." West by Orphan Train will tell the story of these children, who were taken from a sometimes-rough existence to an un..
Wild Innocence
A story dealing with civilization's effect and man's cruelty on the Australian outback.
Widows & Orphans
Movies can make you famous, wealth doesn't necessarily come with fame, the truth of such a thing is a disaster, but she keeps making movies.
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children. A woman dresses as a nurse leads approximately two hundred small children into the eating area where they stand behind their chairs. At a given signal, each child sits down and begins eating. The remainder of the f..
The Lost Orphan: Mirela's Story
Twelve years after working in a Romanian orphanage, Natalie Pinkham tracks down a girl she formed a special bond with to see where life has taken her.
The Lost Orphan: A Home for Mirela
In this documentary, television sports presenter Natalie Pinkham reveals her efforts in planning a home for a group of orphans just outside Slatina.
Little Orphan Annie: A Cartoon
Fun with Little Orphan Annie at the circus.
Ochberg's Orphans
Documentary about a business tycoon who helped rescue children orphaned during the brutal aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
Annie la petite orpheline
C'est la veille de Noël dans la grande ville. Mais pour l'homme le plus riche du monde, Olivier Warbucks, c'est juste un jour comme les autres. Warbucks se met très en colère quand son loyal assistant, Punjab, amène Annie, une gamine sans abri qui par son enthousiasme sème le trouble dans toute la maison. Annie décide de s'enfuir en compagnie..
The House of Orphans
A couple with their daughter move into their dream home, what they don't know is that the house has previously been an orphanage! The orphanage was selling child labor or sex slaves. The couple who ran the operation were revealed and executed, but before they died, the woman pronounce a curse,on both the city and the orphanage. The orphanage burned..
The Orphanage
Set in the rural plains of Lesotho, the film documents a day in the life of children living in a Buddhist orphanage, leading to an exploration of shifting power relations and moral value systems.
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger explores ways in which trauma is passed on from previous generations to the present through a sense of being haunted. Following a group of international adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora in their 20s and 30s, the film uncovers how the return of the repressed confronts and destabilizes narratives th..
Faultless: The American Orphan
Full length documentary covering the growing interest of American Christians caring for children in foster care. Broad in scope - filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, and California. Many people outside of the Christian faith have found this film encouraging and eye opening.
