Disability Movies

An educational film about discrimination upon intellectually disabled children.

Motherhood is a short documentary film about a single mother trying to secure a future for her severely disabled son.

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

Taking its title from Tod Browning’s classic film, this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a...

On the cusp of turning 40, wheelchair badminton champion Nina Gorodetsky, has her first and maybe last, chance to participate in the Paralympics....

In a small town in Mexico, Miguel, a 26-year-old disabled man, lives isolated from the world because of his mother's overprotection. When Miguel...

A stage director patiently awaits his lead stars to arrive for rehearsal. As they are running late, he watches their recorded audition to remind...

To look or not to look? That is the question an autistic woman faces when her difficulty making eye contact causes difficulties at her retail job.

Documentary film about a theater project at a school for mentally disabled children. For four months, the film crew observed the rehearsals of the...

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in...

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of...

A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums.

A nurse falls for her patient, a young man recently injured in a car accident.

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society.

Filmmaker Kyle Anne Grendys is only the 75th person to be born with the rare, recessive gene disorder called Fraser Syndrome. Having always felt...

In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career...

Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a place as a watchman in the timber camp, The...

Darol Kubacz is unstoppable. A U.S. Army veteran without the use of his legs, this leader and Freedom For Life Non-Profit Founder is determined to be...

A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.