The Business of Films

Sixty years after the pill revolutionized women's emancipation, The Business of Birth Control examines the complex relationship between hormonal birth control and women’s health and liberation. This newly released 54-minute version of The Business of Birth Control won the Audience Award and the ...

Sixty years after the pill revolutionized women's emancipation, The Business of Birth Control examines the complex relationship between hormonal birth control and women’s health and liberation.

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America.

This 30-minute version of The Business of Being Born was created for instructional and academic settings

Buoyed by hopeful experiences with medical marijuana, physicians and parents of children with cancer call for more research of its healing potential.

Pregnant bodies are easier for society to accommodate. What follows birth is a different, messier story. Through new and honest ways, with a wide range of frank, difficult, revealing interviews, BREAST MILK follows the lives of breastfeeding women and addresses the many questions around breast milk.

In 2012, one in three babies in America were delivered by c-section, despite the World Health Organization's recommendation that Cesarean births remain below 15 percent. How can these disturbing trend be reversed? In recent years, the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwiv...

More Business of Being Born Part 1: Follow Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Director Abby Epstein and pregnant actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley to The Farm Community in Summertown, Tennessee, where pioneer midwife Ina May Gaskin talks candidly about the art of midwifery. Gaskin's book Spiritual...

More Business of Being Born Part 2: Featuring celebrity moms Laila Ali, Gisele Bundchen, Cindy Crawford, Alyson Hannigan, Melissa Joan Hart, Kellie Martin, Alanis Morissette, Christy Turlington-Burns and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Special Deliveries is a collection of intimate birth stories from ...

More Business of Being Born Part 3: The most comprehensive series, Explore Your Options offers birth-planning guidance around key topics the advantages of birth centers, and the alarming escalation of cesarean sections in the United States and Brazil. Epstein and Lake talk to doulas about why the...

More Business of Birth Control Part 4: The VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Cesarean) has become a hot-button issue in the modern maternity care system, as one in three new mothers will give birth via cesarean section. Epstein and Lake posed that question to dozens of experts, determining the surprisin...