A feature documentary directed by Jessica Earnshaw
Executive Produced by Sarah Paulson
BABY DOE is now available to watch from home! Go to Apple TV or Prime Video to rent or buy the film now.
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PRESS
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“The case poses a fascinating question around belated justice.”
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“...an empathetic film that plays like a true crime documentary in which the question is not who did it, but why.”
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“The Bottom Line: Head-spinning and absorbing.”
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“Endlessly compelling, 'BABY DOE' has you in its grip from start to finish."
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“Earnshaw’s direction balances raw emotion with careful storytelling.
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‘Baby Doe’ Is an Unflinching Look at a Devastating Case of Denied Pregnancy
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Jessica Earnshaw on her SXSW-Debuting Baby Doe
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“Sarah Paulson Joins ‘Baby Doe’ as EP”
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
OCTOBER 25 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, Toronto, Canada
Post-screening discussion with director, Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 2 - Lewis & Clark Law School - Portland, OR - Register
Post-screening virtual discussion with director, Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 5 - WMU College of Health and Human Services - Kalamazoo, MI
NOVEMBER 6 - UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law - Las Vegas, NV - Register
NOVEMBER 9 - Ohio Northern University - Ada, OH - Register
Post-screening discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 10 - Ohio State University Marion with NAMI of Marion and Crawford Counties - Marion, OH - Learn More
Post-screening discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 10 - Stanford Law School - San Francisco, CA - Register
Post-screening virtual discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 12 - University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Post-screening virtual discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 12 - Akron University Law - Akron, OH - Learn More
NOVEMBER 13 - 10th Annual Bay Area Reproductive Mental Health Conference, San Francisco, CA - Register
Post-screening conversation with attorney Rachel Troutman
NOVEMBER 16 - Mount Sinai Hospital - New York, NY - (Private event)
Post-screening discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 17 - Hamline University - St. Paul, MN
Post-screening virtual discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw
NOVEMBER 18 - Orvis School of Nursing, FEM Women’s Wellness and Postpartum Support Intl. Nevada - Reno, NV - Register
NOVEMBER 19 - University of Minnesota Law School - Minneapolis, MN
PAST SCREENINGS
SXSW (Austin, TX) March 7, 9, and 13 - WORLD PREMIERE
Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, OH) March 29th & 30th, WINNER of the Global Health Competition
IFFBoston, Somerville Theater, April, 26
Milwaukee Film Festival, April 27 & May 5
Millenium Docs Against Gravity(Warsaw, Poland)May 13-18
Seattle International Film Festival, May 20 & 21
Southern Fried Film Festival (Huntsville, AL) June 8
DC/DOX (Washington, DC) June 13
Durban International Film Festival (Durban, South Africa) July 19 & 25
Rooftop Films (New York City) July 29th
Sidewalk Film Festival (Birmingham, AL) August 19 and 24
Bend Film Festival (Bend, OR), Oct 8, 10 & 12
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival (Colorado Springs, CO) Oct 18th
Doctober (Bellingham, WA) Oct 10 & 22
Philadelphia Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA) Oct 18 & 24
Windsor International Film Festival (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) Nov 1
Unorthodocs (Columbus, OH) Nov 8
Cambria Film Festival (Cambria, CA) Feb 6 & Feb 8, 2026
Victoria Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada) Feb 12, 2026
Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium at NYU Law (New York, NY) March 12, 2026
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law (Washington, DC) May 11, 2026
PSI 39th Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA) June 25, 2026
DCTV Firehouse Cinema (New York, NY) July 10, 2026
DCTV Firehouse Cinema (New York, NY) July 11, 2026
DCTV Firehouse Cinema (New York, NY) July 12, 2026
DCTV Firehouse Cinema (New York, NY) July 13-16, 2026
Laemmle Glendale (Los Angeles, CA) July 14, 2026
Laemmle NoHo (Los Angeles, CA) July 15, 2026
The Nantucket Dreamland Film for Thought (Nantucket, MA) July 15
The Roxie Theater (San Francisco, CA) July 12, 2026
Ruth’s Army TN and Planned Parenthood (Clarksville, TN) July 25, 2026
The Picture House ‘Reel Conversations’ series (Bronxville, NY) July 29, 2026
The Nightlight Cinema (Akron, OH) August 1-5, 2026
River Oaks Theatre (Houston, TX) August 15, 2026
Jones Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH September 2
Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH - September 2 & 3
Northwest Film Forum, Truth To Fiction Series, Seattle, WA - September 3
Movie Madness Miniplex, Portland, OR - September 4
The Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA - September 5
Antioch University, Multiple campuses - September 6
The Foundry, Huntington, WV - September 12
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Charlotte, NC - September 15
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA - September 16
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA - September 17 -
Behind the Screen: West Newton Cinema, Newton, MA - September 23
Ramapo College, Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Mahwah, NJ - September 24
CSU College of Law and the School of Film & Media Arts, Cleveland, OH - September 24
Kan Kan Cinema, sponsored by the C.H.A.M.P Program, Indianapolis, IN - September 28
Tiffin University, Tiffin, OH - September 29
Sinclair College, Dayton Legal Heritage Foundation & Thurgood Marshall Law Society, Dayton, OH - September 30
The 10th Anniversary Summit of Black Birth Matters, New Orleans, LA - October 1
Suffolk University, Law School, Boston, MA - October 5
Penn Women’s Center, Philadelphia, PA - October 8
CSU LA School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics, Los Angeles, CA - October 9
Defiance College, Defiance, OH - October 13
SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME - October 14
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University & Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ - October 15
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - October 15
Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law, New Orleans, LA - October 19
DePaul University, College of Law - Chicago, IL - October 19
Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice - Harrisonburg, VA - October 21
Townsend Bar and Cinema - Old Greenwich, CT (private event) - October 21