Academic Resources

Disability Studies Films and Videos

This is not a list of entertainment films featuring actors portraying characters with disabilities. This list consists, primarily, of titles held in media collections at the University of Washington , which are designed or intended for classroom use.

Educational Media Collection (Kane Hall):

Disability Studies Listing: http://www.css.washington.edu/emc/titles.php?topicid=178

Across the Silence Barrier
Angela's Island
Auditory Assessment
Behavior Modification: Teaching Language to Psychotic Children
Behavior Modification of an Autistic Child
CBC-TV News in Review: April 1997*
Can You Hear Me?
Changes
Come Work with Us
Consequences: Spinal Cord Injury
Different Approach, A
Enlightened Machine, The
First Encounters
Get It Together
Give It a Try*
I Am Not What You See: Being "Different" in America
I Should Know a Lot, I Been Around So Long
If I Can't Do It
I'll Find a Way
Introduction to American Deaf Culture: Rules of Social Interaction
Introduction to American Deaf Culture: Values
Invisible Barrier, The
Land Mines: A Love Story
Liebe Perla,*
Like Other People
Looking Up
Mentally Handicapped Children Growing Up: The Brooklands Experiment
Out of the Shadows
Penny and Ann
Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, The*
Physical Development
Physiological Aspects of Speech: Speakers with Cerebral Palsy
Principles of Motion Economy Illustrated by Handicapped Homemakers
Reinforcement Therapy*
See What I Say (Holly Near's Concert Reaches Out to the Deaf)
Seven Minute Lesson: Acting as a Sighted Guide
Silent World, Muffled World
Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up
Surest Test, The (Made at the UW in 1972)
Thursday's Children
Titicut Follies*
Use of a Computer by a Child with Developmental Aphasia
Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
Wheelin' Steel
When Billy Broke His Head . . . And Other Tales of Wonder

* = Restricted to UW use only

Library Holdings: Documentaries and Educational Films

Able to Laugh [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord FP 018

All Bodies Speak: Five DanceAbility Performances [videorecording]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-2315 LIB USE ONLY

Are You Fit to Marry?
This pro-eugenics film from 1927 is part of the UW Law School collection. For more information, contact Professor Paul Miller.

Asylum: A History of the Mental Institution in America [DVD]
1 > Odegaard Media DVD FFH 104

Best Boy/Best Man [DVD]
1 > Odegaard Media DVD NVG 035
2 > Tacoma Media DVD TAC-167

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien [videorecording]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media Videorecord BOT-2142 LIB USE ONLY
2 > Odegaard Media Videorecord FP 008

The Collector of Bedford Street [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord NDF 034

Could You Hold the Door For Me? : Including Disability in Diversity [videorecording]
1 > SocWk Media HV1553 .O44 2001

Dancing From the Inside Out: Three Stories from AXIS Dance Troupe [videorecording]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-2064 LIB USE ONLY

Disability Culture Rap
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord PDA 003
2 > Odegaard Media Videorecord PDA 003 guide

Family Challenges: Parenting with a Disability [DVD]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-608 LIB USE ONLY

King Gimp [DVD]
1 > Odegaard Media DVD FFH 117

Look Who's Laughing [DVD]
1 > Odegaard Media DVD PDA 002

The Most Dangerous Woman in America [DVD]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-523

My Country [DVD]
1> Odegaard Media DVD AQUA 001

Nobody is Burning Wheelchairs [videorecording]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media Videorecord BOT-420

Pramila and Parvati [videorecording ]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord SOA 045

Refrigerator Mothers [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord FP 014
2 > Tacoma Media Videorecord TAC-1082

Soop on Wheels [videorecording]
1> Odegaard Media Videorecord FML 112

The Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media          Videorecord PDA 001
2 > Odegaard Media          Videorecord PDA 001 suppl
3 > Tacoma Media            Videorecord TAC-1670
4 > Tacoma Media            Videorecord TAC-1670 suppl

Twitch and Shout [videorecording]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-1740 LIB USE ONLY
2 > Odegaard Media DVD NDF 036 LIB USE ONLY

Unforgotten: Twenty-five Years After Willowbrook [DVD]
1> Odegaard Media DVD PDA 001

Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
> Odegaard Media Videorecord FP 015

When Billy Broke His Head…And Other Tales of Wonder [DVD]
1 > Bothell/CCC Media DVD BOT-509 LIB USE ONLY
2 > Odegaard Media DVD FP 001

Without Pity [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord FFH 6981

A World Without Bodies [videorecording]
1 > Odegaard Media Videorecord PDA 002

A Guide to Feature Films

To find titles worth searching for here and elsewhere, try browsing Films Involving Disabilities website, which presents a detailed list of over 2,500 feature films in a variety of categories:

http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk

To find out if a feature film listed on the Films Involving Disability website is available through the UW, try searching the Library Catalog http://www.lib.washington.edu or the Educational Media Collection: http://www.css.washington.edu/emc