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.

Looking to bring the film and/or filmmakers to your community or educational institution?
Contact us to secure a license for your public event and explore speaking opportunities with the director and others in the film!

PRESS

  • “The case poses a fascinating question around belated justice.”

  • “...an empathetic film that plays like a true crime documentary in which the question is not who did it, but why.”

  • “The Bottom Line: Head-spinning and absorbing.”

  • “Endlessly compelling, 'BABY DOE' has you in its grip from start to finish."

  • “Earnshaw’s direction balances raw emotion with careful storytelling.

  • ‘Baby Doe’ Is an Unflinching Look at a Devastating Case of Denied Pregnancy

  • Jessica Earnshaw on her SXSW-Debuting Baby Doe

  • “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