The Family Film

Your family's story,
told as a film worth passing down.

Not a slideshow and not a montage — a real documentary, written, narrated, and scored, built entirely from the records we uncover. The piece your whole family watches together, and the one they actually share.

Real families, real films

These are Family Films.

Each one is a real family's story, drawn out of original records and told honestly — every claim on screen labeled for exactly how well we can stand behind it. Yours is built the same way, around your own people. We add a new one with every family we take.

The Ziegler–Sickler Story — The Name That Gave Nothing Away9:31
Almost Home — The French Name Hidden on an Iowa Grave7:33
The Record No One Read — The Page That Ended a 175-Year Search12:00
The Traitor Named Lundy — The Man History Got Wrong11:17
Made from the record, not from thin air

Every scene in your film traces back to a real document — a birth register, a ship's list, a gravestone, a parish page. Where the record is certain, we say so. Where it's probable, or only a lead, we say that too, right on the screen. An honest film is the only kind worth handing down.

Choose your film

Packages that save you money

Start with the film on its own, or bundle the pieces families ask for most and pay less than you would à la carte.

The Film

The documentary, on its own.

$1,500

  • The full produced Family Film
  • One family line, honestly labeled
  • Share-ready cut + full-quality film to keep
Save $850

The Legacy Package

The whole family's story, the fullest telling.

$2,950

  • Everything in The Heirloom Package
  • Two additional family lines woven in
  • The Extended Cut — a longer, deeper film
  • Priority delivery

founding rate — built from your research. Final pricing depends on how many lines your story weaves together and how deep you want the film to go.

Build your own

Add to any film

Stack any of these onto the base film and we'll price it up front — no meter running.

  • Additional family line
    Weave another branch of the family into the same film.
    +$500per line
  • Your photos & voices woven in
    Send us the family photographs and recordings — we work them into the film.
    +$300
  • The Extended Cut
    A longer film with deeper chapters and more of the records on screen.
    +$750
  • Keepsake Edition
    A printed story booklet and an heirloom USB, boxed in linen to hand down.
    +$250
  • Priority delivery
    Moved to the front of the queue and delivered first.
    +$400
Want to stand where it happened?

Take the film home in person.

For families who want more than a film, we host a private homecoming on the ground your people left — archives, parishes, gravestones — with a photographer and filmmaker capturing the whole journey. It becomes a film no one could script. That's the deep end, and it's there when you're ready.