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The definitive film about a nation coming to terms with its past, and its present. The extraordinary true story of Tuam, Ireland's most notorious mother and baby home for unwed mothers. This is the definitive documentary about an international scandal - through the eyes of survivors, the siblings of the missing children, and those who were adopted, and are now searching for their birth families and for the truth. This is an extraordinary true crime story with a warm human heart. The film weaves together shocking revelations about what happened to the children under the Bons Secours nuns, with the compelling present tense narrative of survivors, American adoptees and relatives searching for, and finding their families – their birth mothers and fathers, their missing siblings.

44m

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Catherine Corless, a Tuam resident with an interest in local history, discovered that the 796 children who died in the home could have been buried in a sewage tank, put there by the nuns in charge.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Many of the children who survived the Tuam institution, and were forcibly adopted out, mainly to the USA, and often in return for large sums of money that went directly to the nuns.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The Irish government is due to release the Commission of Investigation’s report into Mother & Baby homes. Relatives and survivors hope this might finally mean they will receive some form of justice.

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Lockerbie
Scamanda
No One Saw a Thing

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The Missing Children

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The definitive film about a nation coming to terms with its past, and its present. The extraordinary true story of Tuam, Ireland's most notorious mother and baby home for unwed mothers. This is the definitive documentary about an international scandal - through the eyes of survivors, the siblings of the missing children, and those who were adopted, and are now searching for their birth families and for the truth. This is an extraordinary true crime story with a warm human heart. The film weaves together shocking revelations about what happened to the children under the Bons Secours nuns, with the compelling present tense narrative of survivors, American adoptees and relatives searching for, and finding their families – their birth mothers and fathers, their missing siblings.

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