Here is a selection of documentaries, podcasts, and nonfiction books which touch on themes of family storytelling.
Books
- The myths we live by – John Byng-Hall (Routledge, 1990)
- Not in my family: German memory and responsibility after the war – Roger Frie (OUP, 2017)
- Living with the dead: memories, histories, and the stories families tell in modern Britain – Laura King (OUP, 2025)
- Family secrets: acts of memory and imagination – Annette Kuhn (Verso Books, 2002)
- Children of strangers: stories of a Black family – Kathryn L Morgan (Temple University Press, 1980)
- Afterlives of war: a descendants’ history – Michael Roper (MUP, 2023)
- Black sheep and kissing cousins: how our family stories shape us – Elizabeth Stone (Routledge, 1992)
- A celebration of American family folklore: tales and traditions from the Smithsonian Collection – Steven J Zeitlin, Amy J Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker (Yellow Moon Press, 1992)
Documentaries
- Circle of Books (dir. Rachel Mason), 2019
- A House Through Time (series, dir. various), 2018-24
- Capturing the Friedmans (dir. Andrew Jarecki), 2003
- Strong Island (dir. Yance Ford), 2017
- Three Identical Strangers (dir. Tim Wardle), 2018
- Abducted in Plain Sight (dir. Skye Borgman), 2017
- The Gullspång Miracle (dir. Maria Fredriksson), 2023
- Silver Dollar Road (dir. Raoul Peck), 2023
- AIDS: The Unheard Tapes (series, dir. Mark Henderson), 2022
Podcasts
- Family Ghosts (Sam Dingman, WALT FM), 2017-23
- Tenx9 (Pádraig and Paul), ongoing
- Before Me (Lisa Phu, Self Evident Media), 2022
- Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo (CBC), 2018
- Unfinished: Deep South (SiriusXM), 2020
- This American Life (WBEZ Chicago), ongoing
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