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If you like disabled voices in film

Discover stories from filmmakers or featuring performers living and working with disability. Selected by Honee C.

Hennepin County Library

25 items

  • A comedy-drama about a medical transport driver and his passengers, featuring Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, an actress and advocate with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
    DVDChicago, IL : Music Box Films, [2020] — Adult DVD
  • A documentary of a blind card magician, Richard Turner
    DVDNew York, NY : Sundance Selects, [2018] — Adult DVD
  • Writer, director, and actor Lena Dunham has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)
    DVD[United States] : Home Box Office, 2012. — Adult DVD
  • Actor Jillian Mercado is a Latina wheelchair-user.
    DVD[New York, NY] : Showtime, [2020] — Adult DVD
  • Actor Daniel Radcliffe has dyspraxia, a learning disability that is often grouped with dyslexia.
    DVDSanta Monica, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2020] — Adult DVD
  • Actor Zelda Rubinstein's pituitary gland deficiency caused her short stature.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007] — Adult DVD
  • Actor Richard Jobson has epilepsy.
    DVD[Los Angeles] : RLJE Films, [2022] — Adult DVD
  • Actor and singer Selena Gomez has lupus.
    DVDLos Angeles, CA : Paramount, [2015] — Adult DVD
  • Actor, singer, and songwriter Demi Lovato has bipolar disorder.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2008. — Children's DVD
  • Actor Harold Russell lost both hands as a soldier in World War II and used prosthetic hooks.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2012] — Adult DVD
  • Years and Years

    the Limited Series

    Actor Ruth Madeley has spina bifida.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2020] — Adult DVD
  • Casts deaf actors and ASL interpreters.
    DVD[Australia] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2021] — Adult DVD
  • Actor Shaban Nabil has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease).
    DVD[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, 2008. — Adult DVD
  • Actor Warwick Davis has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism.
    DVDBeverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013] — Adult DVD
  • Actor Daryl Hannah has autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
    DVD[New York, N.Y.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004] — Adult DVD
  • Actor and singer Ray Charles's blindness was caused by juvenile glaucoma.
    DVDUniversal City, CA : Universal, c2005. — Adult DVD
  • Actor Millicent Simmonds is deaf.
    DVDHollywood, California : Paramount, [2018] — Adult DVD
  • Ben Stiller has bipolar disorder.
    DVDUniversal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2012. — Adult DVD
  • Actor Robert Tarango is deafblind.
    Streaming VideoOuat Media, 2019. — Streaming Video
  • Actor Herbert Marshall lost a leg as a soldier in World War I and used a wooden leg prosthetic.
    DVD[Burbank, California] : Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., [2014] — Adult DVD