Disability Movies

Documentary film about the diaconal work and the care of people with disabilities in the Bethel institutions.

Three Georgians with cerebral palsy fight to live life on their own terms. But as their families bind together, state policy tries to tear them apart.

A documentary exploring the life of a man with multiple disabilities, as he discusses his approach to sexuality and romance; focusing on his desire...

Documentary about cartoonist John Callahan and the creation of his animated series Quads!

Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

Twelve years after they went to school together, six children from Berlin with and without disabilities are interviewed on the topic of inclusion in...

In the first story a man with cerebral palsy saves a nurse from suicide and they begin a relationship. In the second story a handicapped woman races...

The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey to athletes, who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

A documentary with 65 intertitles about life and work at Oberlin House, a home for deafblind people in Nowawes near Potsdam.

A slice-of-life documentary following Ulla, a blind woman adjusting to life after eye removal surgery. With the help of her guide dog, Laina, she...

When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.

Actress and Strictly Come Dancing 2021 winner Rose Ayling-Ellis reveals the daily challenges, discrimination, and barriers which are faced by deaf...

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

The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion.

This 14 minute short documentary features a panel hosted by the Disabled Student Union at University of California Berkeley called "Are Cripples...

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Doglegs is a cheerfully iconoclastic underground scene where the disabled battle the able-bodied - all in the name of exploding stereotypes. When the...

A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.

A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he...