Where to Watch My Flesh and Blood Online — And Whether It’s on Netflix
Fancy the award-winning 2003 documentary My Flesh and Blood — plus a few equally compelling non-fiction companions — but not sure where to start?
If you search Netflix for My Flesh and Blood, you’ll find an old, inactive title page — but no Play button. The 2003 documentary is not on Netflix in the U.S., and there’s no announcement or timetable for it to arrive. Right now, the only straightforward way to watch it online is to rent or buy it on the Apple TV Store. There are no free streaming options.
The film, directed by Jonathan Karsh, follows a year in the life of Susan Tom, a California mother raising 11 adopted children with serious medical conditions and disabilities. For years, Netflix subscribers could get the movie through the company’s DVD-by-mail service in the 2000s and 2010s — which explains the leftover listing — but that access is long gone.
Where to watch now
Apple TV Store has the documentary available as a digital rental or purchase through the Apple TV app and web storefront. No other major subscription streamer currently carries it in the U.S.
The film isn’t streaming on Netflix; it’s only available to rent or buy on the Apple TV Store.
Want something similar?
If you’re drawn to intimate, high-emotion family stories, these non-fiction picks hit a similar nerve:
- Love and Diane — A powerful portrait of a mother and daughter navigating recovery, poverty, and generational trauma in New York.
- Daughters of Destiny — A Netflix Original docuseries about students in India fighting to change their futures through education.
- Sister Helen — A gritty look at a no-nonsense nun running a sober home and the people who land at her door.
- Little Man — An unflinching account of a family coping with extreme prematurity and complex medical care.
Bottom line: My Flesh and Blood isn’t on Netflix, and there’s no announced date for it to land there. It’s available to rent or buy now on the Apple TV Store.