Disability Studies

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Best Boy (1979)

https://sfc.kanopy.com/video/best-boy

Best Man (1998)

https://sfc.kanopy.com/video/best-man

Reiss, Frances (Actor), Wohl, Max (Actor), Ira Wohl (Director)

The director filmed his mentally handicapped male cousin, who lives in Queens, NY.  During the first film Philly Wohl was 52 years old and living with his elderly parents. Ira makes his aunt and uncle realize that they will be able to take care of Philly forever. Philly begins to take classes to learn how to take care of himself. Twenty years late, Ira contacted Philly again. He lives in a home with other like him. Ira invites him to Los Angeles and prepares him for his bar mitzvah. 

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS8SpwioZ4

Directed, written and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama served as executive producers under their Higher Ground Productions banner.

"No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution."

https://cripcamp.com/

A Brief But Spectacular take on the disability rights movement

from PBS NewsHour, Oct 21 2021

https://youtu.be/2PnUza4FPz8

Since childhood, Judy Heumann has faced ableism (discrimination of people with a disability) ... After a lifetime of activism, she is finally seeing a shift in how people with disabilities are viewed and treated.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/2021/10/a-brief-but-spectacular-take-on-the-disability-rights-movement/

How Wheelchair Friendly is New York's Subway System Really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS8SpwioZ4

Is New York's subway system really as wheelchair-friendly as they say it is? A reporter followed a wheelchair user to find out.

Laughing in the Face of Disability | Tuesco | The New Yorker Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsSMMG6eC4g

A disabled young man thrives alongside a family that doesn’t hold back their dark humor, in a documentary by Daniel Poler.

People's technology: video games for the disabled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFTVTyBJZZU

A UK charity modifies computer game consoles so that disabled people can stay in the game.

How to Treat a Person with Disabilities, According to People with Disabilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6c6JLbczC8

Talking to people living with disabilities about the proper ways to treat someone with disabilities.

Disability Reframed - Exploring the state of disability in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ek2CFibhg

Roughly one in four adults in the United States is living with a disability. In “Disability Reframed”, PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff takes a broad look at the unique challenges facing those Americans. Through a series of in-depth reports, Woodruff explores the battles to supply and receive disability care, fights for wage equality, and how climate change disproportionately impacts disabled populations.

Creative Growth Art Center in San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrGiEWzKoo&t=50s

Founded four decades ago, at the height of the disability-rights movement, Creative Growth Art Center is a nonprofit organization serving artists with physical and cognitive disabilities. Telling the story of remarkable individuals and a uniquely productive artist community, this segment explores the idea that artmaking is a fundamental human practice and should be accessible to all.

'Not disabled enough': The Paralympics and the fight for fairness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IaTWI54OA

In the Paralympics, as in all elite sports, some athletes cheat. To ensure competitive fairness, para-sports use a classification system to group athletes according to their level of impairment. A former Paralympian says para-sport is dogged by a culture in which some athletes exaggerate their disabilities to manipulate this system - and her efforts to raise the alarm have tarnished her career.