Films involving Disabilities    


Documentary films

    This section is far from comprehensive and mainly concerns films which are feature length and/or have been referred to me.


Absolutely Positive (1990) (AIDS)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)(Mental)
Ananta Gupta  (A.I.D.S./HIV)
Angel on My Shoulder (1997) (Cancer)
Back From Madness: The Struggle for Sanity (1996)
Before I Sleep (1996) (AIDS)
Being Different (1981) (General) 
Beginning with Bong (Children with neurological disabilities)
Benjamin Smoke (2000) (AIDS)
Best Boy (1979) (Mental retardation)
Best Man, 'Best Boy' and All of Us 20 Years Later 
Beverly Shaffer (Spina Bifida)
Bong and Donnell (Children with neurological disabilities)
Born Freak (Thalidomide)
BRAINDAMADJ'D...TAKE II (2006)
Breathing Lessons (Paralysis)
Children of Gaia (1998) 
Collector of Bedford Street, The (Learning difficulty)
Crazy Love (2007)(Disfigurement)
Crumb (1994)(Schizophrenia)
Dance of Partnership (Cognitive disability)
Darius Goes West (Muscular Dystrophy)
Devil and Daniel Johnston, The (2005) (Depression)
Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? (1989) (TV Film)
Doctors with Heart (1993) (AIDS)
Downpour Resurfacing (2003) (Psychiatrist)
Educating Peter (1992)
Every Little Thing (1997) (Mental illness)
Exit: The Right to Die (2006) 
Going To School (Inclusion)
Grace (Alzheimers) 
Graduating Peter (2001) (Education)
Grizzly Man (2005) (Bipolar disorder)
Hurry Tomorrow (Mental illness)
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) (Learning difficulties)
Jenni Gold (Polio)
Jupiter's Wife (1995)(Mental illness)
Key of G, The (multiple disabilities)
King Gimp (Cerebral Palsy)
My Flesh and Blood (2003) (Special needs children)
Normal for Us (Spinal muscular atrophy)
People in Motion (1995)
People Say I’m Crazy (Schizophrenia)
Positive Journey into AIDS, A (1995) (TV Film)
Rachel Gordon (Various) 
Research and Training Center (Various)
Skin Horse, The (1983) (General)
Spit It Out (Stuttering)
Taylor's Campaign
Tools for Change (General)
Twisted (Dystonia)
twitch and shout (1993) 
Unknown White Male (2005) (Amnesia)
Us and Them   A.I.D.S./HIV
Various films
Weightless (2002) (Mental illness)
You're Gonna Miss Me (2005) (Schizophrenia)