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Documentary films about post-traumatic stress disorder (18 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about people with disabilities" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities is a 1996 American television documentary film narrated by Christopher Reeve. This documentary celebrates the efforts of those with disabilities to live full, productive lives. It originally premiered on HBO on October 8, 1996.
The documentary intersperses archival footage with first-person interviews with disability rights activists who fought discrimination such as Fred Fay, I. King Jordan, Judi Chamberlin and Judith Heumann, and with legislators who helped draft and secure the passage of the ADA, including Tony Coelho and Tom Harkin.
Films about disability in the United States (2 C, 251 P): Documentary films about people with disabilities (10 C, 62 P) * Films about sideshow performers (19 P)
Crip Camp starts in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York described as a "loose, free-spirited camp designed for teens with disabilities". [4] Starring Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James LeBrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and Stephen Hofmann, the film focuses on those campers who became activists in the disability rights movement and follows their fight for accessibility legislation.
Shameless: The ART of Disability is a documentary film by Bonnie Sherr Klein about persons with disabilities. Produced in 2006 by the National Film Board of Canada, it is Klein's first film since a catastrophic stroke in 1987 left her a quadriplegic. The film explores disability culture and the transformational power art has for people with ...
With this, disability is commonly associated with an illness or disease. Examples include Auggie in the film Wonder (film), or Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Sinister or evil; Characters who are portrayed as having physical disabilities are cast as the anti-hero, such as in the films Ant-Man and the Wasp (the character Ghost) and Split.
Pages in category "Films about intellectual disability" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.