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Showing 1 - 10 of 106 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND 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
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, filmmaker Arunas Matelis 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
Between the Lines
A visually lyrical, experimental documentary about women who cut themselves, this film explores the fine line between self-destructive behavior and self-preserving coping mechanisms.
The Fanlight Collection | 1997 | 21 minutes
