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 NFB535727The members of the cast gather several nights a week. They are in heavy rehearsals for an upcoming...
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...
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...
All About Kids
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527972Quebec Aquarium: School children see marine life at close range. Children's Play Therapy: Games and...
Ariel
National Film Board Of Canada NFB564475When Ariel was just 33, his legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer in Mendoza, Argentina...
Art and Status in Society
Mimi Shulman 010093Mimi Shulman is a visual artist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who is hearing impaired. She has...
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 NFB537996Stephen O’Keefe takes to the stage at the comedy club, and soon the audience is pealing with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Doing the Impossible: The Story of the Developmental...
Developmental Disabilities Association DDA000Inspired by the birth of a boy with Down Syndrome, one mother’s bold choice not to...
Eternal Children
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528356Children who through heredity, brain injury or various other causes are not equipped to keep pace...
Everybody's Handicapped
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522208A National Employment Service placement officer learns that in the man who is physically disabled...
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. 11
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520877Classroom on Rails: In Ontario forests north of Lake Superior, a school car is dropped off at a...
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 Kainai take action against...
Eye Witness No. 25
National Film Board Of Canada NFB535484New Methods Feed the North: To defeat their ancient enemy, hunger, Inuit and First Nations Peoples...
Eye Witness No. 25
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520015New Methods Feed the North: To defeat their ancient enemy, hunger, Inuit and First Nations Peoples...
Eye Witness No. 32
National Film Board Of Canada NFB569818Show World's Show Place: The Toronto branch of Variety Club provides a residential vocational...
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 NFB556336The film documents the treatment of crippled children in India. Using improvised equipment...
First Steps
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521846Mental retardation is a condition that affects one out of every hundred children in Canada. The...
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...
He's Not the Walking Kind
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525419A story from Victoria, British Columbia, of one young man who, despite a crippling malady, is...
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...
In This Dark World
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521636This film introduces a remarkable blind woman, Louise Cowan, who, as supervisor of home teaching...
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...