Videos on Science and the Environment

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