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Publisher
Diamond Law
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of five disabled people living in the Pacific Northwest. They discuss microaggressions and implicit bias against people with disabiltiies, developing disability pride and identity, and how bias affects them every day. The film suggests how teachers, coworkers, health care workers, and families can become better allies to members of the largest minority group in the US.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Tracing one man's attempt to organize a nude photo shoot of 12 prenatal victims of the toxic drug Thalidomide (including himself), NoBodys's perfect is alternately hilarious, insightful and sad, and entirely allergic to sentimentality or easy platitudes.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
We produced this film over twenty-five years ago, at a time, when most people with disabilities were excluded from education and often warehoused in such institutional settings as hospitals for the mentally ill, adult residential centers and large group homes. Allowing people with disabilities into regular school classrooms, job sites and other community activities is known as mainstreaming or inclusion. Regular Lives, portrays early, successful...
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- the likelihood that she will not outlive her daughter and the need to find her a new home. Filmmaker Sophie Sartain, Mimi and Dona's granddaughter and niece, respectively, captures the quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo at their most poignant...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
When Peter Gwasdauskis, a child with Down syndrome, was mainstreamed into a public school, he had a lot to learn about dealing with differencesand so did his classmates. Filmed over the course of the third-grade school year, this 1992 Academy Award-winning documentary vividly captures Peters achievements and frustrations as he makes a place for himself among his peers. The program features interviews with Peters parents, teachers, fellow students,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
An astonishing documentary about a man who overcomes his disability one day at a time, Alan Govenar's new film reveals the extraordinary life of African immigrant Sidiki Conde. Sidiki lost the use of his legs to polio at age fourteen. Today, he balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of day-to-day life in New York City. From his fifth-floor walk-up apartment, he traverses down the stairs on his hands and...
8) Murderball
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. In addition to smashing chairs, they will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
10) Emmanuel's gift
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, born in Ghana with a deformed right leg, beat incredible odds to become a hero. Through riding a bicycle across the nation, he helped bring political and social change to Ghana.
Language
English
Description
The diabetes workout is a series of exercises designed to improve circulation, and includes suggestions on diet and exercise from Dr. Lynn Kohlmeier. The balance workout includes multi-level exercises designed to improve leg strength, flexibility, eye tracking, posture, and breathing.
Publisher
Sit and Be Fit
Language
English
Description
"These Sit and be fit workouts feature Mary Ann Wilson, RN, from the popular public television series. Each 27 minute episode includes full body workouts designed to strengthen, stretch and improve overall function of your body. Mary Ann creates and leads exercises that are easy, upheat and lively which feature fun movements and music. Plus, seated versions of the standing workous are demonstrated by a second instructor" -cover
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