Movies: Disability

Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert him...

In a town where everyone has a handicap a person without a handicap might move into a house....

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Finding love at 20 isn’t easy for anyone, but for Sophia, it is complicated by her own special challenges....

The world of young people and the problem of disability......

Come What May documents the extraordinary life of Mary, a parent carer, and the challenges she has overcome to support herself and her family....

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States (57 million people) and in Russia (13 million people). This film follows the adventures of Russians and Americans with disabilities, who like the characters in the Dumas novel, w...

Follows the lives of 6 adults with a disability in a care center. Over a year's time, each of them share their view of the world and how they cope with moods and looks....

An award-winning, ground-breaking TV documentary dealing sensitively with the topic of sex and intimacy within the disabled community....

Traces the lives of the Hartings, a blind Montreal family of three who make their living singing in the city's subway stations. The Hartings lost their only sighted child Hassan in a tragic drowning accident, and have since turned to the teachings of...

Two remarkable activists model a grand experiment in independent living....

Martinez's second feature documentary assembles a theatre group of deaf actors in order to portray their lives and at the same time avoid any pedagogic representation of the non-hearing people. Coming from different environments and provinces, la tro...

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and P...

A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without arms and legs but persevered, becoming an international star in the early 20th century as a "Human To...

Poor painter helps a paralysed child....