Creation Identity - Sperm and Egg Donor Conception - Documentaries

The Genius Sperm Bank
BBC2 (UK)—Thursday 15 June 2006, 21:00 hrs, 60 min
A Californian millionaire established a sperm bank in 1980 with the aim of creating superior children of exceptional individuals.  Problems abounded, however and today, it is still unknown whether his grand idea was successful because most of the children created through his clinic remain anonymous.
Internet Movie Database webpage:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436352/

Searching for My Son
Channel 4 (UK), Monday 18 December 2006, 21:00 hrs, 60 min
Executive Producer: Jenny Crowther
Between 1936 and 1976 around half a million babies in Britain were given up for adoption, many of them against the wishes of their mothers. As a consequence, one in ten families now live with the legacy of adoption. In this powerful and sensitive documentary viewers journey with two women as they embark on the long and emotional search for their missing children and the discovery of whether their now adult children will want contact with them.

Who's Your Daddy?
BBC3 (UK)--Tuesday 8 December 2009, 21:00 hrs
In this documentary Alesha Dixon reflects on growing up without a father.  The National Council for One Parent Families says about three million children today have experienced the trauma of their parents separating, and a million of them never see one of their parents again, usually the father. Many are conceived through donor insemination or one-night-stands and never learn the identity of their father at all. Yet knowing who their biological relatives are is not only important for emotional reasons, but also for medical and genetic purposes.

Eggsploitation
Executive Producer, Director, and Writer: Jennifer Lahl
The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads—via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds—offering up to $100,000 for their “donated” eggs, to “help make someone’s dream come true.” But who is this egg donor? Is she treated justly? What are the short- and long-term risks to her health? Eggsploitation spotlights the booming business of human eggs told through the tragic and revealing stories of real women who became involved and whose lives have been changed forever.
http://www.eggsploitation.com/index.htm

Sperm Donor Dads
Channel 5 (UK), 10 April 2001, 20:00 hrs
This documentary looks into the questions raised by sperm donor anonymity, and interviews children born from donors in the UK and in Canada.

Whose Body?
BBC2(UK), 18 October, 01:30hrs
The programme discusses how personal identity is treated when television discusses fertility issues and motherhood.

Four men, 175 babies: Britain’s Super Sperm Donors
Cameras follow four British men who have collectively helped to conceive more than 175 babies by donating their sperm to women who contact them via unregulated websites.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8485384/

Thank You for Coming
Documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm learned as an adult that she was conceived via sperm donor; it's taken eleven years, twelve DNA tests, five ancestry databases, one potential half sister, and 900 sixth-cousins to (maybe) find her biological father.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932420/

Future People: The Family of Donor 5114
“Future People” chronicles the lives of a group of adolescents who discover they all have one thing in common- they were conceived using the sperm of donor 5114 at a California cryobank. There are 37 of them and counting; the oldest is now 23, the youngest just seven. Over the course of eight years, the siblings utilize social media and their shared curiosity to form meaningful connections with one another, building a complex web of half-siblings all across the country.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14301292/

Anonymous Father's Day
Thousands of donor-conceived people have a deep longing to know who they belong to, where they come from, and who they look like. What is it like to grow up not knowing who your father is or if you have any siblings? What is it like to find out that the man you thought was your dad is not your biological father, that your true biological father donated his sperm and is known only by a number? How does it impact your self-perception, the choices you make, and your view of life and the world? Donor-conceived people are demanding answers to these basic questions about their origins, their lives, and their identities.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278827/