"Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan."

"An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive."

"Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer."

"A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal."

"The journey of a young African American girl who navigated over 30 foster homes and psychiatric facilities before age 18, and the one woman, Jeanne, who believed in her."

After a violent, racially charged incident lands John in juvenile detention, he is finally placed with an unlikely set of foster parents, Eldridge and Marianna, an interracial couple."

"A boy’s brutal murder and the public trials of his guardians and social workers prompt questions about the system’s protection of vulnerable children."

"The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger."

"The true story of Donna and Reverend Martin and their church in East Texas. 22 families adopted 77 children from the local foster system."

"A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life."

​"Rose is a young girl who has grown up in foster care. Desperate to escape an abusive situation, she is saved by an older man named Shaka, but at what price?"

"With one in eight American children suffering a confirmed case of neglect or abuse by age 18, there are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S."

"Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all."

"A families lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when they meet Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes."

"A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend."

"A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth."

This documentary film is focused on the challenges and extraordinary lives of youth in foster care. The film is a reflection on loss and the search for belonging and finding family.