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Watching

"Watching" is a collection dedicated to visual media revolving around and created by members of the disabled community.

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CODA

Movie

CODA tells the story of 17-year-old Ruby Rossi, the only hearing member of a deaf family (a Child of Deaf Adults) living in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She juggles working on her family's struggling fishing boat and translating for them with discovering her own hidden passion and talent for singing.

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Crip Camp

Movie

In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as  human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated West to Berkeley, California — a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption, civil disobedience, and political participation could change the future for millions.

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Extraordinary Atterny Woo

TV Show

Woo Young-Woo is extremely smart and she also has autism spectrum disorder. She never forgets what she sees, but she lacks in social skills and empathy. Woo Young-Woo begins to work as a trainee lawyer at a large law firm. While working there, she faces prejudice and irrationality against her, but she solves cases with her own unique perspective and grows as a lawyer.

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Heartbreak High

TV Show

Heartbreak High follows Amerie, an Australian teen at Hartley High who becomes an outcast after a scandalous mural maps out the secret hook-ups of her classmates. Forced into a mandatory sexual literacy class, she works to repair her reputation, mend a fractured best friendship, and navigate chaotic adolescent relationships.

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Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish

Movie

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish follows Tsuneo, a marine biology student with dreams of diving in Mexico, and Kumiko (who calls herself "Josee"), a sharp-tongued young woman who uses a wheelchair and has been heavily sheltered by her grandmother. After accidentally breaking her fall down a hill, Tsuneo is hired as Josee's caretaker, leading to a transformative journey of mutual inspiration, romance, and personal growth.

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Our Blues

TV Show

Our Blues is a South Korean omnibus-style television series set on the vibrant backdrop of Jeju Island. It follows the bittersweet, interconnected lives of various local residents—ranging from truck vendors and sea divers to ship captains and fish market owners—capturing real struggles, healing, and community bonds.

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Renegades

Video Series

Renegades is a six-part, short documentary series hosted by musician and disability rights advocate Lachi. It highlights the lives and cultural contributions of lesser-known historical figures with disabilities (Brad Lomax, Thomas Wiggins, Celestine Tate Harrington, Daniel K. Inouye, Judy Lynn del Ray, and Kitty O'Neil), exploring disability culture and the mantra "Nothing About Us Without Us"

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Rising Phoenix

Movie

Rising Phoenix is a powerful documentary chronicling the history of the Paralympic Games. It follows elite international athletes on their journeys to the Rio 2016 Games, exploring how the movement grew from post-WWII rehabilitation into the world's third-largest sporting event.

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Rurangi

TV Show

Rurangi follows transgender activist Caz Davis as he returns to his remote, politically divided dairy farming hometown in New Zealand after a decade away. He hopes to reconnect with his estranged father, who has not heard from him since before he transitioned, while navigating local tensions, old flames, and past community dynamics.

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Sex Eduation

TV Show

Sex Education is a British comedy-drama series about Otis Milburn, an awkward teenager whose mother is a professional sex therapist. Otis teams up with a rebellious classmate named Maeve to run an underground sex-therapy clinic at their high school, helping their peers navigate identity, relationships, and sexual anxieties.

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Sound of Metal

Movie

Sound of Metal is a drama film about Ruben, a punk-metal drummer and recovering addict, whose life is upended when he rapidly loses his hearing. Starring Riz Ahmed, the film explores his denial, his time in a deaf community, and his struggle to accept a new reality.

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Special

TV Show

Special is a semi-autobiographical comedy series created by and starring Ryan O'Connell. It follows Ryan, a gay man with mild cerebral palsy, who decides to rewrite his identity after a minor car accident and finally chase independence, adulthood, and love.

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Speechless

TV Show

Speechless follows the DiMeo family, each with a unique personality: Maya, a take-charge British mother with a no-holds-barred attitude; her husband Jimmy, who does not seem to care what others think; Dylan, their no-nonsense athletic daughter; Ray, their scholarly middle child who acts as the "voice of reason" in the family; and their oldest son, JJ — a high schooler who has a biting wit and sense of humor, and is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The sitcom explores the serious and humorous challenges a family faces with a teenager with a disability.

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Then Barbara Met Alan

TV Show

Then Barbara Met Alan is a factual television drama film that chronicles the true story of cabaret performers Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth. The couple became the driving force behind the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), launching disruptive, non-violent protests that helped secure the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act in Britain.

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The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-be-Wife

TV Show

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife follows Akira Tounome, an invisible detective, and Shizuka Yakou, a blind woman working at his agency. Though his invisibility aids his sleuthing, it fails to fool Shizuka, who always senses when he is near. A sweet, wholesome office romance blossoms as they grow closer. 

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The Peanut Butter Falcon

Movie

The plot of The Peanut Butter Falcon follows Zak, a 22-year-old man with Down syndrome who escapes from an assisted living facility to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. He teams up with Tyler, a troubled small-time outlaw on the run, while a dedicated social worker tries to track them down.

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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Movie

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is a documentary that tells the true story of Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who died at age 25. His parents mourned him in the belief that he lived a lonely, isolated life, only to discover through his online persona, Ibelin, that he had deeply touched thousands of people inside World of Warcraft.

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