Two of the babies featured in the film are from rural areas: Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, and Bayarjargal (Bayar) from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, and two are from urban areas: Mari from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie from San Francisco, U.S.[1] The film was released in the United States by Focus Features[2] on 7 May 2010.

[3] The documentary opens showing how Ponijao comes into the world in a modest nut in her mother rubs some red pigment all over her pregnancy-swollen belly.

Hattie, on the other hand, arrives in a Western birthing center surrounded by medical equipment and technicians.

Another scene shows Bayar being born and tightly swaddled in a hospital, before heading off with his parents and a sibling on a motorcycle to the rural area where the family lives.

The site's consensus is that "Babies is a joyous celebration of humankind that's loaded with adorable images, but it lacks insight and depth.