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Disability Studies

Examines the nature and consequences of disability, focusing on the division between “impairment” and “disability”, where impairment was an impairment of an individual’s mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct.

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Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
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Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
A rare 360 degree portrait, Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one emergency call at a time
Director: Jenifer McShane
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96/25 min.
Year of production: 2019
Activism Health Human Rights Law and Justice Mental Health
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Gurrumul
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Gurrumul
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
Director: Paul Damien Williams
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96 min.
Year of production: 2017
Arts and Culture Biography Disability Ethnography Music Personal Story
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My Way To Olympia
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My Way To Olympia
A warm and touching look at what the Paralympic Games mean for the athletes, by a filmmaker who starts out as a cynic but soon gets swept up by the emotional whirlwind of competitive sport.
Director: Niko von Glasow
Language: English, German, Greek (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 85 min.
Year of production: 2013
Anthropology Disability Society Sports
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It’s Not Yet Dark
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It’s Not Yet Dark
Narrated by Colin Farrell, this is the incredible story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young Irish filmmaker who, despite a diagnosis of Motor Neuron Disease, goes on to direct an award-winning feature film solely through the use of his eyes.
Director: Frankie Fenton
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 77 min.
Year of production: 2016
Author's POV Biography Disability Family Health Personal Story
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Little People Big Dreams
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Little People Big Dreams
Behind the curtains of the most unlikely kingdom on earth. This is China's Dwarves Empires, where little people stand tall. Or do they?
Director: Mak Ck
Language: Chinese (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 89 min.
Year of production: 2014
Asian Studies Disability Health Human Rights Society
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Liebe Perla
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Liebe Perla
This film focuses on the friendship between Perla Ubsitsch, a dwarf who survived Dr. Mengele's cruel experiments in Auschwitz, and a researcher Hannelore Witkovsky. Together they search for an old film featuring Perla and her siblings.
Director: Shahar Rozen
Language: English, German, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 53 min.
Year of production: 1998
Disability European History Genocide History Holocaust Jewish Studies Society
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Kim’s Story
Kim’s Story
If one photograph captured the horrific nature of the Vietnam War, it was that of a nine-year-old girl running naked down a road, screaming in agony from napalm burns. This girl was Kim Phuc, and this is her story.
Director: Shelley Saywell
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 48 min.
Year of production: 2000
American History Asian Studies Biography Conflicts Disability History Human Rights Investigative Journalism Media Personal Story Photography Politics War Women
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Sea of Butterfly
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Sea of Butterfly
After an 8-year relationship, Jae-nyeon and Woo-young decide to get married. Though similar brain lesions define them, the pair must confront and resolve marital issues identical to any other couple.
Director: Park Bae-il
Language: Korean (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 89/52 min.
Year of production: 2011
Asian Studies Disability Personal Story Romance Sexuality Society
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Deaf Jam
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Deaf Jam
Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen and Israeli migrant living in New York, enters the spoken word poetry slam scene, eventually collaborating with Palestinian hearing slam poet, Tahani.
Director: Judy Lieff
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 53/70 min.
Year of production: 2011
Arts and Culture Biography Conflicts Creative Disability Family Gender Middle Eastern Studies Women Youth
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The Punk Syndrome
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The Punk Syndrome
A film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band with Down Syndrome.
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen | J-P Passi
Language: Finnish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 85 min.
Year of production: 2012
Disability Health Music Society
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Matthew’s Laws
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Matthew’s Laws
Director Marc Schmidt films his childhood friend Matthew, who, due to his autistic disorder, desperately tries to create order in the chaos around him.
Director: Marc Schmidt
Language: Dutch (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 72 min.
Year of production: 2012
Author's POV Disability Health
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Monica & David
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Monica & David
Monica & David explores the marriage of two adults with Down syndrome and the family who strives to support their needs.
Director: Alexandra Codina
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 68/52 min.
Year of production: 2009
Disability Family Health Personal Story Romance
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Planet of Snail
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Planet of Snail
Young-Chan is a deaf-blind poet, who shares the world around him with his devoted wife Soon-Ho, with whom he communicates using a touch-based form of Braille.
Director: Seung-Jun Yi
Language: Korean (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 87/52 min.
Year of production: 2011
Asian Studies Disability Literature Personal Story Romance Society
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