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Showing 1 - 10 of 21 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND 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

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

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

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

The Good Death

Suffering from muscular dystrophy and terminally ill, Janette plans to travel from the UK to Switzerland in order to die with dignity.

First Hand Films | 2018 | 84 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

Left in Baghdad

Returning Iraq veteran Ross Graydon copes with the challenges of life back in the U.S., with his new prosthetic arm.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 12 minutes