People With Disabilities
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National Film Board Of Canada NFB523170A short, live-action film about a ski school for pupils with physical disabilities. These ski...
A Place in the World
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527997Martin Langlois is 22 and autistic. His devoted parents cannot care for him much longer, so they...
Acting Blind
National Film Board Of Canada NFB535241The members of the cast gather several nights a week. They are in heavy rehearsals for an upcoming...
Acting Blind
National Film Board Of Canada NFB535727The members of the cast gather several nights a week. They are in heavy rehearsals for an upcoming...
Aids: A Countdown to a Cure
CinéFête A296-009According to experts, the AIDS epidemic is now halted but its eradication is nowhere near its end...
Albedo
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522609Based on the journals and photographs of the late David Marvin of Montréal, Albedo chronicles the...
Ariel
National Film Board Of Canada NFB564475When Ariel was just 33, his legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer in Mendoza, Argentina...
At the Beach
National Film Board Of Canada NFB566720Their bodies will forever bear the marks of their suffering. But thanks to an outing organized by...
Autists: A Place Among the Others?
CinéFête A259-011Autism remains a mystery. However, the fact that there is no medical treatment is an absolute...
Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524329Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26...
Between the Laughter
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537991Stephen O’Keefe takes to the stage at the comedy club, and soon the audience is pealing with...
Between the Laughter (Educational Version)
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537996Stephen O’Keefe takes to the stage at the comedy club, and soon the audience is pealing with...
Blindness
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520706The story of a man who lost his sight during the best years of his life. Filmed with the help of...
Bridging
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521713Bridging includes three messages. The first is concerned with improving the access of disabled...
Canada Vignettes: Erik Davidson - Mechanic
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521516A man who rebuilds and restores antique cars recounts how he was blinded in the Halifax harbour...
Canada Vignettes: Physiotherapist
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524077How a young woman physiotherapist spends much time, and a great deal of patience and care, helping...
Canadian Screen Magazine No. 4
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523686Big Liz Brings Home 12 000 Happy Canadians: Canadian soldiers return home from Europe on the S.S...
Citizen Sam
National Film Board Of Canada NFB540326It?s bedtime, and Sam Sullivan parks his wheelchair just so. He leans gently forward, then falls...
Citizen Sam
National Film Board Of Canada NFB541024It?s bedtime, and Sam Sullivan parks his wheelchair just so. He leans gently forward, then falls...
Danny and Nicky
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522794A comparison of the care of two boys with Down syndrome, the one living at home with brothers and...
David with F.A.S.
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526692David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is...
Dear Anorexia
CinéFête A259-019Despite the fact that there have been many changes over time in the way anorexia is viewed on a...
Depressive States: Part 1
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524464A farmer who has suffered three nervous breakdowns is interviewed in the morning and again in the...
Depressive States: Part 2
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520625Two women patients are interviewed. The first one, a happy, active housewife, was suddenly struck...
Discussions in Bioethics: If You Want a Girl Like Me
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526226One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics...
Discussions in Bioethics: Who Should Decide?
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522461One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics...
Everyone's Business
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521213The Churchill Park Greenhouse Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is a small produce business...
Eye Witness No. 17
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525299Modern Magic with Liquid Air: A physics lecture becomes a three-ring circus when professor John...
Eye Witness No. 22
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524150Alberta's Blood Indians: On their reserve near Cardston, Alberta, the Blood Indians take action...
Eye Witness No. 25
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520015New Methods Feed the North: To defeat their ancient enemy, hunger, Inuit and Indians of Canada's...
Eye Witness No. 64
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525811A New Life for the Handicapped: The largest rehabilitation centre of its kind in Canada, Toronto's...
F.A.S.: When the Children Grow Up
National Film Board Of Canada NFB534225When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, she can do irreparable harm to her baby. This program...
First Steps
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521846Mental retardation is a condition that affects one out of every hundred children in Canada. The...
Hommage à Monsieur Bell, For You, Mr. Bell
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524112This film profile of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and pioneer in many other...
In This Dark World
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521636This film introduces a remarkable blind woman, Louise Cowan, who, as supervisor of home teaching...
Je trouverai un moyen, I'll Find a Way
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524445When nine-year-old Nadia is allowed to attend a regular school, she knows the kids will tease her...
John and Michael
National Film Board Of Canada NFB531768A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and...
Just One of the Boys
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525822This film is a profile of Eric Davidson, blinded at age two in the 1917 Halifax harbour explosion...
Mental Patients' Association
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524224One of eight Canadians will at some time in their lives be admitted to a mental institution. This...
Mosquitoes on the Rise
CinéFête A173-033The film, Mosquitoes on the Rise, takes us to Brazil, Africa, Southeast Asia and Southern Europe in...
Mothers of Courage
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522646It's ten-year-old Bethany's school concert, and her parents are watching anxiously. Bethany may...
Mr. Symbol Man
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526446'Blissymbols' are giving children without speech a joyous new means of communication. This film...
My Friends Call Me Tony
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525544The film is about a ten-year-old boy who can distinguish only light from shadow. Despite this...
New Faces Come Back
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522826New Faces Come Back shows the part that plastic surgery played in giving disfigured servicemen a...
Nicholas
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525952Nicholas recounts the story of how the parents of a severely disabled child in a fishing village in...
OCD: The War Inside
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525559They seem like ordinary people. They have no physical disabilities and appear as functional as the...
One Step at a Time
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521270A film to show advances made in the designing and fitting of artificial limbs. Filmed at the...
Out of Silence
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525064A film showing how the Montréal Oral School for the Deaf employs teaching methods that draw...
See No Evil ...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520889This docudrama recreates the dramatic events surrounding the 1979 blinding of worker Terry Ryan in...
SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability
National Film Board Of Canada NFB538524Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate...