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Showing 1 - 10 of 23 titles with a criteria of Subject is Physical Disabilities


Able to Laugh

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes

Acting Blind

Takes audiences behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse a play about life without sight. The performers have no problem imagining themselves in these roles: they are blind themselves.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 52 minutes

Breathing Lessons

Academy Award winning portrait of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio in childhood and spent much of his life in an iron lung.

The Fanlight Collection | 1996 | 35 minutes

Crutch

Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 96 minutes

Edges of Perception

Eleven-year-old Jessica copes with Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 14 minutes

Flying People

The story of master kite flyer Rory Heap, blind from birth.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 24 minutes

For a Few Pennies More

Iodine deficiency causes health problems in Indonesia.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes

The Friendship Village

An international group of veterans builds a village in Vietnam for children with Agent Orange-related deformities.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 51 minutes

How to Carry Water

This fairytale set in the North Florida Springs celebrates fat, queer, and disabled bodies through the photography of Shoog McDaniel

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 15 minutes

I Didn't See You There

Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the freak show

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 76 minutes