A história é contada segundo a perspectiva de Elphaba, que mais tarde será conhecida como a Bruxa Má do Oeste, e Glinda, a futura Bruxa Boa do Sul. Muito antes da chegada da jovem Dorothy ao mundo de Oz, ficamos a conhecer as duas feiticeiras, quando, ainda raparigas, eram colegas de quarto na Universidade de Shiz. Apesar de um início de relação algo atribulado, as duas acabam por se tornar aliadas na luta contra a tirania do Feiticeiro de Oz.
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
Menina de 11 anos, precoce, hipocondríaca e carente de atenção vive com o pai, agente funerário viúvo. Durante o verão ela vive a experiência do primeiro namoro e do primeiro passo rumo a maturidade, no momento em que tem que enfrentar uma dolorosa perda.
Shinnosuke é apresentado a Shizu, como potencial marido, mas apaixona-se por Oyu, a irmã mais velha, viúva, que a convenção proíbe de casar, sendo encarregada de criar o seu filho para que este seja o chefe da família do seu falecido marido. Oyu convence então Shinnosuke e Shizu a casar para que possa manter-se perto do homem que ama.
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.
The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A tribute to the Chicago Maternity Center and its efforts to provide the best possible care for destitute mothers, the film is based on the book of the same name by Paul de Kruif. Myron McCormick plays the largest role as a dedicated intern, while others in the cast include such theatrical heavywrights as Will Geer, Dudley Digges and Dorothy Adams. The film's many vignettes range from the tragic (a mother dying in childbirth in the opening scene) to the exultant (another mother rescued from the brink of death in a disease-ridden tenement). Filmed in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, Fight for Life is a worthwhile effort, though Lorentz seems more comfortable with the "actuality" scenes than with the dramatized passages.
You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).