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Showing 1 - 10 of 143 titles with a criteria of Subject is Illness, Disease and Disorders
Alive!
What happens when five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute drop?
Icarus Films | 2014 | 80 minutes
The Allergy Fix
Scientists are attacking food allergies in new and inventive ways, driven by the alarming increase in the number of people, particularly children, who suffer, and can die, from them.
Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 44 minutes
Almost Home
Almost Home is a stunningly intimate feature-length, cinema verité film that follows the stories of residents, families and workers in a Midwestern nursing home as they struggle with the personal challenges of aging while trying to transform their century-old hospital-like institution into a true home.
371 Productions | 2005 | 84 minutes
The Amazing Amy
Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City. But behind the showmanship lives an incredibly lonely human being.
MediaStorm | 2011 | 13 minutes
The Angry Heart
Spotlights the modern epidemic of heart disease in the African-American community
The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 57 minutes
Austin Unbound
A look at the intersection of disability and gender identity.
Collective Eye Films | 2014 | 43 minutes
Autism: A World Apart
Three families show us what the textbooks and studies cannot show about autism.
The Fanlight Collection | 1988 | 29 minutes
Autism: The Road Back
Charts the personal journey of three families with children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
National Film Board of Canada | 2005 | 54 minutes
Before Flying Back to the Earth
Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, the filmmaker skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.
First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes
Being Michelle
A deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 80 minutes