Recommended Documentaries



This documentary about the Paul Fronczak kidnapping, is a powerful story.  You can watch The Lost Sons on Discovery Plus or you can order Paul's memoirs, "The Foundling" and "True Identity".  




Secrets in our DNA: A documentary about the power of genetic genealogy.  Watch it here: 



Wonder Boy - available on Netflix.  A french adoptee, who is a successful fashion designer, seeks his roots.  




Three Identical Strangers

A shocking story of an adoption agency who secretly separated twins and triplets to study them and the aftermath of those unethical decisions.
Side By Side
A South Korean Adoptee, Glenn Morey, Turns His Personal Story Into a Personal Project.
Documentary here
Radio interview here.
Korean adoptee inteviews here.
During 1854-1929,  a quarter of a million children were resettled in homes and were later described as the Orphan Train Movement.   
West By Orphan Train on Amazon Prime

Six Word Adoption Memoir Project:  
Go here
Closure - Transracial adoptee Angela Tucker, seeks her birth family while her husband and director, Bryan Tucker, films the journey.

http://closuredocumentary.com/












For the Life of Me by Jean Strauss
Compelling, emotional, and a look at how adoption and secrets can affect people across their entire life.

https://vimeo.com/202415517
Little White Lie
A film about dual identity, race and family secrets. (available on Netflix)

http://www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com/





An Adoptee Roared in Ohio:  The Betsie Norris Story by Jean Strauss

 Adoption Network Cleveland Director's several decade journey to open Ohio adoptees' original birth certificates.

A Simple Piece of Paper
A documentary by Jean Strauss about the opening of adoptees' birth certificates in Illinois.

http://www.asimplepieceofpaper.com/








Father Unknown
The true story of a man's search for connection on a journey with the father he's never truly known.

www.fatherunknown.com



Twinsters


Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anais believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth. (available on Netflix)

http://twinstersmovie.com/our-story/#our-story-1



The Dark Matter of Love
Adoptive parents learn that the reality of bonding with children who've grown up in institutions is more difficult than they ever imagined.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Love-Masha-Diaz/dp/B00QQQZSWC



A Girl Like Her by Ann Fessler
A Girl Like Her reveals the hidden history of over a million young women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes to give birth, surrender their children, and return home alone.  They were told to keep their secret, move on and forget.  But, does a woman forget her child?











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