TV & Film

Explore our curated collection of tv & film to support your adoption journey.

Meet the Adopter: Adopting Children with Additional Needs
Meet the Adopter: Adopting Children with Additional Needs

In this episode of ‘Meet the Adopter: Adopting Children with Additional Needs’, LGBTQ+ adopters of two daughters, Karen and Charmaine, talk with PACT social worker Julie Stolland about adopting children…

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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Secrets & Lies (1996)

Secrets & Lies is Mike Leigh’s acclaimed 1996 British drama about an adult adoptee, Hortense, who searches for and meets her birth mother, Cynthia. Hortense is a successful Black optometrist…

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Mercy Mercy: A Portrait of a True Adoption (2012)

Mercy Mercy: A Portrait of a True Adoption is a 2012 Danish documentary about an intercountry, transracial adoption from Ethiopia to Denmark. It follows two siblings and both their families…

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Philomena (2013)
Philomena (2013)

Philomena is Stephen Frear’s 2013 drama about an Irish woman, Philomena Lee, played by Judi Dench. Philomena searches for the son she was forced to relinquish for adoption in the…

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Lost Boys & Fairies (2024)
Lost Boys & Fairies (2024)

Lost Boys & Fairies is a three-part BBC One drama about a gay couple in Cardiff navigating the adoption process while confronting past trauma. It follows Andy and Gabriel and…

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Trying (2020)
Trying (2020)

Trying is a British comedy-drama that follows Nikki and James as they move from infertility to adoption. By season 4, they are parenting two adopted children. It’s a warm, funny…

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Lion (2016)
Lion (2016)

Lion is a biographical drama about five-year-old Saroo Brierley, who was adopted from India to Australia and later used Google Earth to find his birth family. This is an adaptation…

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