Celebrating the lives and stories of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities — from 26 countries, across every genre. Browse our most popular categories below, or explore a specific category further down the page.
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Laura, Tim W and Tim S were born with developmental disabilities and are now living outside an institution for the first time.
We focus on 4 men raising children with various disabilities as they share their hopes, dreams, joys and challenges.
A music video by Station 17 – a collection of improvisational musicians gathered from a Hamburg community of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
After struggling with many treatment options, a family decides to give their son medical cannabis to lessen the effects of his autism.
35 people answer the same one question: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
For a boy who feels puddles are as dangerous as whirlpools, how can being submerged in a pool be relaxing?
Down Syndrome
Follow a team of superheroes as they bring new life into a supermarket on the verge of going out of business.
This auto-biographical documentary follows the filmmaker as he bids farewell to the housing he has lived in for eight years.
A poem by Cam Lasley, a hip-hop artist with Down syndrome, is performed/recited by Marlon Foster, a young man with an I/DD.
A theatre group prepares for a large-scale spectacle, to be staged in a stadium for an audience of 5,000 people.
Another unique Cam Lasley hip hop music video. “We got each others back – until the day we drop – and we never gonna stop.”
Madrid dance troop Danza Down enchants audiences with classical ballet, traditional Spanish dance and musical theatre performances.
Intellectual disability
When a Minneapolis theater company put on a show titled “Rise of the Celebretards,” people with disabilities took action.
Follow a team of superheroes as they bring new life into a supermarket on the verge of going out of business.
A woman who has overcome barriers and whose participation in a community college has enhanced the quality of her life.
A poem written by Neil MacDonald is recited/performed by Destiny Lewis Bell – two people with developmental disabilities.
A music video by Station 17- a group of musicians from a Hamburg community of people with developmental disabilities.
Two people with disabilities navigate through the challenges they’re faced with when their relationship is displayed in public.
Films with Discussion Guides
Jarell is a teenager with autism who has learned to use hip-hop dance as a means to communicate his true self to the world.
35 people answer the same one question: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
As a 12-year-old grapples with identity, his family faces the emotional realities of his autism diagnosis.
Go inside the life of a woman with a developmental disability who is struggling to raise three children who also have disabilities.
Jeffrey has a certain flair and a passion to be with people, to help others and enjoy life!
An inspirational short documentary about a boy with Down syndrome and his love of baseball.