Our Father

 is an American true-crime documentary film directed by. It was released on Netflix on May 11, 2022. This film documents fertility fraud.

Our Father is about Jacoba Ballard and her half-siblings (over 50 people in total) who discovered that they were all paternally related through Donald Cline, a former fertility doctor in Indianapolis. The documentary follows the criminal investigation into Cline's actions, his possible motives and the compounding impact of his lies and abuse. It also examines the legalities around fertility fraud and how the newfound accessibility in genealogy testing, through companies like 23andMe, has uncovered more stories like Cline's.

Summary
"After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor."

- Official Netflix synopsis

Jacoba Ballard was an only child, conceived via donor sperm, who always dreamed of having a brother or sister. An at-home DNA test led her to the discovery of not one but seven half-siblings – a number that defied best practices in fertility medicine. As the group set out to learn more about their curious family tree, they soon discovered the sickening truth: Their parents' fertility doctor had been inseminating his patients with his own sperm – without their knowledge or consent. As Ballard and her newfound siblings realized they've barely begun to untangle his dark web of deceit, their pursuit of justice lies at the heart of this profoundly unsettling story about an unimaginable breach of trust.