24/7 c2005
Mary A. C Fallon, Daniel Priest, and Fanlight Productions
The develomenally disabled require constant care by their parents. This documentary illustrates the difficulties parents and professional caregivers in Florida must deal with every day. 1 videocassette (33 min.)
MEDIA 10-3034 2-7679
Abandoned to their fate a history of social policy toward people labeled severely disabled c2008
Philip M Ferguson, Paul Gralen, Adam Wendt , Allan David Gross, University of Oregon, Specialized Training Program, Iris Media Inc, and Program Development Associates
This program traces the origins of our social stereotypes and exclusionary practices toward people with disabilities, drawing from scholarly records, institutional archives, original photography and popular media the program focuses on the moral, aesthetic and economic policies that shaped the lives of people with disabilities. 1 videodisc (29 min.)
MEDIA MEDIA 10-1267 2-7831
Body & soul Diana & Kathy c2007
Alice Elliott, Diana Braun, Kathy Conour, Simone Pero Audi, Independent Television Service, and New Day Films
The story of the remarkable friendship between Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy. The two met over three decades ago, and have been roommates, friends, and partners in political activism ever since. 1 videodisc (40 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3451
The collector of Bedford Street c2005
Alice Elliott, Larry Selman, Welcome Change Productions, and New Day Films
Every year Larry Selman, a 60 year old man with mental retardation, raises thousands of dollars for charity. When his life teeters on the edge of a crisis, his New York City community comes to his aid through a unique act of generosity. 1 videodisc (34 min.)
MEDIA 10-732
A day in the life of Bonnie Consolo 2006
Barry Spinello, Barr Films, and Direct Cinema Ltd
Presents a portrait of Bonnie Consolo, who was born without arms, yet leads a normal and productive life. Follows her through a typical day as she cares for her home and family, and as she goes about her daily routine she explains her thoughts about life. 1 videodisc (22 min.)
MEDIA 10-786
Hold me tight, let me go 2007
Kim Longinotto, Films of Record (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, and Women Make Movies (Firm)
Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, forty children call Mulberry Bush home. They are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. This film is a study of dysfunction - of what happens when families break down. MEDIA 10-1185
I am Sam love is all you need 2002
Marshall Herskovitz, Kristine Johnson, Jessie Nelson, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Richard Schiff, Loretta Devine, Doug Hutchison, and Laura Dern
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. 1 videodisc (134 min.)
MEDIA 10-113
Lives worth living 2011
Documents the Disability Rights Movement with narrations from the leaders and the story of Fred Fay who survived spinal cord injury when he was 16. 1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.)
MEDIA 10-5171
My future, my plan 2003
Dana Sheets, Gerardine Wurzburg, Laurel Katz, and State of the Art, Inc
A transition planning resource for life after high school for students with disabilities and their families. 1 videodisc (34 min.)
MEDIA 10-754
A new kind of listening c2009
"A new kind of listening takes us inside the Community Inclusive Theater Group as director Richard Reho inspires cast members - some with disabilities- to be writers, actors, and dancers in an original collaborative performance piece. Chris, a young man who has never spoken a word and has been mislabeled profoundly mentally retarded, breaks through into stunning self-expression. Together they prove that a small community arts initiative has the power to transform lives"--Container. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-3928
Oasisu Oasis 2002
Ch ang-dong Yi, Kye-nam Myong, Min-ch ol Cho, Yang-jun Chon, Yong-t aek Ch`oe, Kyong-gu Sol, So-ri Mun, Unikorea, Isut`u P`illum, and CJ Entertainment
A love story of an ex-convict and a lady with cerebral palsy. 2 videodiscs (133 min.)
MEDIA 10-220
Passion fish 1998
John Sayles, Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Leo Burmester, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and David Strathairn
May-Alice Culhane, a TV soap opera star, becomes paralyzed in a car accident. She returns to her deserted family home in Louisiana's Cajun Country and nastily rejects a succession of nurses. She spends her days drinkin and watching TV until Chantelle forces her to shape up. Chantell is recovering from drug addiction, because of which her father took her daughter away. The two learn that they need each other and become friends. 1 videodisc (135 min.)
MEDIA 10-12
Svjedoecanstva pravo na ezivot u zajednici = Living proof : the right to live in the community c2005
Witness (Organization)
"One in three Croatians with moderate or severe intellectual disabilities lives in an institution. Segregated from society, they are prevented from making decisions about their lives. ... Living Proof demystifies stereotypes and offers insight into the process of deinstitutionalization. By presenting the daily lives and opinions of people with intellectual disabilities, this video demonstrated that with quality community-based supports they can live as equal citizens."--Container. 1 videodisc (20 min.)
MEDIA 10-1920
The ten commandments of communicating with people with disabilities c1994
Irene Ward, David Wilkin, Tim Harrington, and Irene M. Ward & Associates
A video demonstrating the proper way to communicate with people with disabilities. 1 videodisc (26 min.)
MEDIA 10-539
Unforgotten twenty-five years after Willowbrook c2002
Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher, Danny Aiello, Geraldo Rivera, City Lights Home Video, and HeartShare Human Services of New York
Examines the impact on patients and their families of Geraldo Rivera's expose in 1972 of conditions at the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities. 1 videodisc (56 min.)
MEDIA 10-775
Without apology c2004
Susan Hamovitch and One-eyedcat Productions
Documents the consequences of the institutionalization of Susan Hamovitch's autistic and developmentally disabled brother Alan in 1958. 1 videodisc (73 min.)
MEDIA 10-764
24/7 c2005
Mary A. C Fallon, Daniel Priest, and Fanlight Productions
The develomenally disabled require constant care by their parents. This documentary illustrates the difficulties parents and professional caregivers in Florida must deal with every day. 1 videocassette (33 min.)
MEDIA 2-7679
Abandoned to their fate a history of social policy toward people labeled severely disabled c2008
Philip M Ferguson, Paul Gralen, Adam Wendt , Allan David Gross, University of Oregon, Specialized Training Program, Iris Media Inc, and Program Development Associates
This program traces the origins of our social stereotypes and exclusionary practices toward people with disabilities, drawing from scholarly records, institutional archives, original photography and popular media the program focuses on the moral, aesthetic and economic policies that shaped the lives of people with disabilities. 1 videodisc (29 min.)
MEDIA MEDIA 10-1267 2-7831
AgrAbility promoting success in agriculture for people with disabilities 1993
Dana S Brumitt-Burton
Discusses the AgraAbility Project, a federally-sponsored outreach service which helps injured and disabled farmers get back to work by providing access to social services and adaptive equipment. Several farmers with disabilities share their personal stories, including how AgrAbility assisted them in continuing to live and work on their farms. 1 videocassette (15 min., 57 sec.)
MEDIA 2-2464
All means all an introduction to circles, MAPs, and PATHs c2004, c1997
Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Linton Productions, and Centre for Integrated Education and Community
Shows a beginning Circle of (support) Friends in a Canadian high school going through the MAPS (Making Action Plans) mandala, and in New Mexico, a parent and her school team go through a moving PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope). 1 videocassette (33 min.)
MEDIA 2-7697
Bleak moments 1997, 1971
Mike Leigh, Leslie Blair, Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman, and Mike Bradwell
Centers around a shy but intelligent middle-class girl, Sylvia, who is barely surviving suburban loneliness while looking after her mentally retarded sister Hilda. 1 videocassette (110 min.)
DANA 1292
Breaking the silence barrier 1996
Marlee Matlin, Gail Freedman, Jan Legnito, and Anita Hollander
Reports on creative technologies that are being used to help people with autism, traumatic brain injuries, and learning and speech disabilities. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-2883
Breathing lessons the life and work of Mark O'Brien 1996
Jessica Yu and Mark O'Brien
Poet-journalist Mark O'Brien was stricken with polio in childhood and has spent most of his life in an iron lung. He describes how he has fought against illness and bureacracy for his right to lead an independent life and offers his reflections on college, work, sex, death, euthanasia, and God. Includes readings from his poetry: Breathing ; Karen ; Mrs. Garcia ; The morning routine ; Creations. 1 videocassette (35 min.)
MEDIA 2-3131
The collector of Bedford Street c2005
Alice Elliott, Larry Selman, Welcome Change Productions, and New Day Films
Every year Larry Selman, a 60 year old man with mental retardation, raises thousands of dollars for charity. When his life teeters on the edge of a crisis, his New York City community comes to his aid through a unique act of generosity. 1 videodisc (34 min.)
MEDIA 10-732
Cooperative Extension Service and accessibility 1995
Sheri McCormick and Bill McCormick
Advice on providing access for the physically handicapped. 1 videocassette (15 min.)
MEDIA 2-3008
Day by day : raising the child with autism/PDD 1992
Joan F Goodman and Susan Hoban
Two children with autism are shown in everyday activities with their families, illustrating topics such as disability, symptoms, coping, and acceptance. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-3731
A day in the life of Bonnie Consolo 2006
Barry Spinello, Barr Films, and Direct Cinema Ltd
Presents a portrait of Bonnie Consolo, who was born without arms, yet leads a normal and productive life. Follows her through a typical day as she cares for her home and family, and as she goes about her daily routine she explains her thoughts about life. 1 videodisc (22 min.)
MEDIA 10-786
Developing minds c2002
Melvin D Levine, Denny Houghton, Madge Kaplan, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), All Kinds of Minds Institute, and WGBH Video (Firm)
"A success-oriented approach to understanding a student's learning profile that focuses on strengthening strengths and developing strategies that work for childeren, adolescents, parents and teachers"--[Cassette 1] containter. 22 videocassettes (ca. 18 hr.)
MEDIA 2-7759 cassette 1 to cassette 22
Dyslexia a different kind of mind 1997
Jamie Guth
Explains how dyslexia has come to be understood to be a biologically-based brain disorder which may be diagnosed and effectively treated. Visits the Washington Lab School where proven teaching strategies and techniques are demonstrated. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
DANA 1733
Educating Peter 1992
Thomas C Goodwin and Gerardine Wurzburg
Follows Peter Gwazdauskas, a Down's Syndrome child who has always attended special schools. through his first year in a regular third grade public school classroom. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 293
Emily's eyes 1998
Jessica Douglas-Henry, Australian Film Finance Corporation, Iris Pictures, SBS Independent, and First Run/Icarus Films
Describes the experience of a Chinese couple in Australia as they deal with the disabilities of their first child, Emily, who was born with hydrocephalous, profound deafness, and blindness in one eye. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-7528
Emmanuel's gift c2005
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern, Elizabeth Massie, Oprah Winfrey, Lookalike Productions, and First Look Home Entertainment
Ghana is not a good place to have a disability--parents either poison their disabled children, or leave them to die in the forest--it's called "seeing off." At best, the disabled are expected to be beggars. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with one deformed leg, which led his father to abandon his mother. Until her early death, she championed her son, enrolling him in school and taking him to various doctors searching for a cure. Her encouragement proved long lasting, as this documentary tells how Emmanuel became a successful amputee athlete. Today, he works to bring political and social change to Ghana's disabled. 1 videodisc (80 min.)
DANA 404
Freedom machines c2004
Jamie Stobie, John Haptas, Peter Dinklage, Independent Television Service, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and Richard Cox Productions
Explores how human experience and new technological innovations are outpacing social policies. This program profiles four individuals who have overcome their disabilities or succeeded despite their physical conditions with the help of new technologies. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-6833
Graduating Peter c2003
Gerardine Wurzburg, State of the Art, Inc, Home Box Office (Firm), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Examines the challenges and benefits of educational mainstreaming for children with mental disabilities. Follows the story of Peter Gwasdauskis, a child with Down syndrome, in sixth grade, eighth grade and high school as he adds speech therapy and life skills classes and on-the-job training to his academic coursework. Includes interviews with Peter's parents, teachers, fellow students, aids and doctors. 1 videocassette (75 min.)
MEDIA 2-7702
Growing up different 2001
Alan Alda, Graham Chedd, Chedd-Angier Production Company, Connecticut Public Television, Scientific American, inc, and PBS Home Video
Looks at children growing up with different views of the world due to physical and mental challenges and scientific advances that can improve their ability to function. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-6978
Hold me tight, let me go 2007
Kim Longinotto, Films of Record (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, and Women Make Movies (Firm)
Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, forty children call Mulberry Bush home. They are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. This film is a study of dysfunction - of what happens when families break down. MEDIA 10-1185
Human sexuality & nursing practice: Illness, disability, and sexuality c1999
Cindy Bright and Concept Media, inc
Pt. 1. Describes the sexual response cycle and the body systems necessary for optimal sexual functioning. Discusses body image and self-esteem, describes patient limitations and illustrates helpful techniques. Pt. 2. Describes age-related changes in sexual functioning and discusses modifications in routines that may be helpful. Examines attitudes, medical problems and medications that may have a negative affect. 2 videocassetes (63 min.)
DANA 2161 cassette 1 & 2
I am Sam love is all you need 2002
Marshall Herskovitz, Kristine Johnson, Jessie Nelson, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Richard Schiff, Loretta Devine, Doug Hutchison, and Laura Dern
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. 1 videodisc (134 min.)
MEDIA 10-113
Illness and disability 1993
Jay Curlee and Susan Stamberg
This program examines chronic health problems of the elderly and availability of support services. Older people discuss how they cope with physical and mental illness and face tough decisions regarding institutionalization and costs of long-term care. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-2689
Improving your rural business with the ADA 1994
Thomas Luba and Bill Ratner
A self-contained resource for rural business owners to assist them in understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act and to provide resources that can be used over and over again to promote community awareness concerning people with disabilites and the ADA. 1 videocassette (14 min.)
MEDIA 2-2388
Introducing TJ therapeutic jurisprudence 2000
Mary Providence Magill and Fanlight Productions
Chronicles the work of a unique court in Bradenton, Florida which provides an alternative to the criminalization of the mentally ill. Discusses the ways the court has served as a therapeutic agent. 1 videocassette (27 min.)
MEDIA 2-7389
Mama wahunzi Women blacksmiths 2002
Lawan Jirasuradej, Painted Earth Films, and Women Make Movies (Firm)
A documentary about three disabled East African women who, through training at a metal workshop, learned how to build wheelchairs for themselves and their community. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-6296
Misunderstood minds 2002
Michael Kirk, Marina Kalb, and Chris Bury
This video illustrated that specific identification of learning problems is the key to success for millions of children struggling in school. Features leading experts in the field of learning problems. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
DANA 1800
My future, my plan 2003
Dana Sheets, Gerardine Wurzburg, Laurel Katz, and State of the Art, Inc
A transition planning resource for life after high school for students with disabilities and their families. 1 videodisc (34 min.)
MEDIA 10-754
A new sense of place 1996
Marlee Matlin, Vicki Sufian, and Anita Hollander
Profiles physically handicapped individuals who have a found ways to ramp their way into the world, and in the work place. Among them, Evelyn Glennie, leading solo percussionist, deaf since the age of 12; NBC News correspondent John Hockenberry, partially paralyzed since the age of 19; a legally blind woman district attorney and accomplished athlete; George Covington, attorney and professional journalist- photographer, legally blind. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-2882
Oasisu Oasis 2002
Ch ang-dong Yi, Kye-nam Myong, Min-ch ol Cho, Yang-jun Chon, Yong-t aek Ch`oe, Kyong-gu Sol, So-ri Mun, Unikorea, Isut`u P`illum, and CJ Entertainment
A love story of an ex-convict and a lady with cerebral palsy. 2 videodiscs (133 min.)
MEDIA 10-220
Passion fish 1998
John Sayles, Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Leo Burmester, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and David Strathairn
May-Alice Culhane, a TV soap opera star, becomes paralyzed in a car accident. She returns to her deserted family home in Louisiana's Cajun Country and nastily rejects a succession of nurses. She spends her days drinkin and watching TV until Chantelle forces her to shape up. Chantell is recovering from drug addiction, because of which her father took her daughter away. The two learn that they need each other and become friends. 1 videodisc (135 min.)
MEDIA 10-12
A perfect fit 1996
Joan Crow, Dave Samuelson, and Bill Ratner
Documents the benefits of involvement in 4-H activities to people with mental and physical disabilities. 1 videocassette (11 min.)
MEDIA 2-3963
Phoenix dance c2006
Karina Epperlein, Alonzo King, Homer Avila, Andrea Flores, John Knoop, Transit 2100 (Firm), and Fanlight Productions
"In March, 2001, renowned dancer Homer Avila discovered that the pain in his hip was cancer. A month later, his right leg and most of his hip were amputated. Through interviews, studio rehearsals, and performances, [the film] follows the evolution of 'Pas', a pas de deux created for Avila by choreographer Alonzo King. In a deeply moving and intimate collaboration with dancer Andrea Flores, Avila creates a new unity - a beautiful creature with three legs and four arms - in which traditional roles are reversed: the man's vulnerability and the woman's strength sweetly complement each other, and their solo outbursts develop themes of interdependence, trust, and strength"--Container. 1 videodisc (22 min.)
MUSIC 154
Physical/mental ability issues 2001
Mark Kundla, J. Q Adams, and Linda Hunt
Focusing on people with disabilities, this video addresses the high rate of discrimination faced by people with disabilities and explores some of the false assumptions and prejudices that fuel this discrimination. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 1625
Prisoners of silence 1993
Jon Palfreman
Facilitated communication (FC), a controversial, new technique which is profoundly altering the lives of people with autism and their faimilies. Heralded by many as a breakthrough technique for communicating with nonverbal people with autism, it is being rejected by many scientists as simply not real. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-2516
Reauthoring a life in the face of lost dreams 1994
Michael White, Jennifer Andrews, and Master'sWork Productions
This consultation specifically addresses the problem of discouragement, when children are born with difficult challenges or severe disabilities. 1 videocassette (105 min.)
MEDIA 2-6788
The ten commandments of communicating with people with disabilities c1994
Irene Ward, David Wilkin, Tim Harrington, and Irene M. Ward & Associates
A video demonstrating the proper way to communicate with people with disabilities. 1 videodisc (26 min.)
MEDIA 10-539
They call me names 1972
Thomas Myrdahl
Portrays the lives of mentally different young people and explores how they perceive a world in which they are told often and in many ways that they are retarded. Includes interviews with sociologist Jane Mercer and other prominent social scientists, as well as the children themselves. 1 videocassette (22 min.)
MEDIA D-456
Unforgotten twenty-five years after Willowbrook c2002
Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher, Danny Aiello, Geraldo Rivera, City Lights Home Video, and HeartShare Human Services of New York
Examines the impact on patients and their families of Geraldo Rivera's expose in 1972 of conditions at the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities. 1 videodisc (56 min.)
MEDIA 10-775
Vital signs crip culture talks back 1998?
David T Mitchell, Sharon L Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions, and Fanlight Productions
This video documentary explores the politics of disability through the performances, debates and late-night conversations of activists at a national conference on Disability and the Arts. 1 videocassette (48 min.)
MEDIA 2-6882
Without apology c2004
Susan Hamovitch and One-eyedcat Productions
Documents the consequences of the institutionalization of Susan Hamovitch's autistic and developmentally disabled brother Alan in 1958. 1 videodisc (73 min.)
MEDIA 10-764
Without barriers or borders 1996
Marlee Matlin, Lyn Goldfarb, and Anita Hollander
Explores the burgeoning global movement for independent living and how people with disabilities are reshaping the world in which they live. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-2884
Working like crazy 1999
Gwynne Basen, Laura Sky, Skyworks Charitable Foundation, TVOntario, National Film Board of Canada, and Fanlight Productions
Looks at the struggles and victories of a group of former mental patients who work in businesses owned and run by other psychiatric survivors. Often labelled "unemployable", they have found a safe place among their peers, a safe place where they can earn some income and rebuild their lives. 1 videocassette (ca. 54 min.)
MEDIA 2-7378