25 min. & 8 min. / documentary / 2002 & 2005 / USA
Burt is a video that portrays a man with developmental disabilities who survived decades of inhuman treatment to become a person who enjoys life to the fullest.
11 min. / narrative / 2007 / UK
This award-winning film tells the story of Glen, a young man with Down syndrome, played David Miller, on a shopping trip with a personal assistant from hell.
18 min. / narrative / 2009 / USA
Retired coal miner Carl Short, 65, lives with his 40-year old, son Sammy, who has Down syndrome. Carl suffers from black lung. When money from a class action lawsuit fails to materialize, Carl realizes his options are running out.
9 1/2 min. / documentary / 2000 / USA
This film documents the inhumane conditions faced by individuals with mental disabilities situated in grossly understaffed, inadequate and neglectful psychiatric facilities around the world.
1 ½ min. / poetic short / 2011 / USA
Poetry by Cam Lasley & Jack Gibson, performed by Marlon Foster.
2 min. / narrative / 2000 / USA
Seth Ehrlich, a person with developmental disabilities gives a commentary on a community's efforts to deny a group home from opening.
31 min. / documentary / 2007 / USA
The story of what happens when four young men with autism, from a public school, are chosen to pilot a college inclusion program in NYC.
26 min. / documentary / 2008 / USA
In the Spring of 2007, when a Minneapolis Theater company put on a show titled "Rise of the Celebretards," people with disabilities and their allies took action. "Offense Taken" documents this community's response to the public use of the "R" word.
28 min. / documentary / 1972 / USA
Focusing on an institution located in Staten Island, NY, this film, with reporter, Geraldo Rivera, was one of the first exposés on local television. As a result of its airing on WABC-TV, the manner of treating people with disabilities was forever changed.
