Showing 1 - 10 of 28 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

Addicted to Life

The dramatic life of Paralympic gold-medalist Marieke Vervoort, and her courageous stand for end-of-life choices: the right to die gave her the will to live.

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 86 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

Full Circle

An unblinking examination of the challenges of life after spinal cord injury... and a celebration of the opportunity for growth that such tragedy can present.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 104 minutes