Multimedia Collection
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
VHS
56 minutes
HV3011 .W5 1997
This HBO documentary, narrated by Christopher Reeve, celebrates the efforts of the disabled to live full, productive lives. We meet a cross section of Americans. A young women with cerebral palsy cares for her baby, while a man with cerebral palsy lives successfully on his own after forty years in an institution. We go to school with a remarkable six-year-old without arms or legs, visit the workplace of a blind computer expert, and meet a professor with polio who teaches the history of discrimination against disabled. A young man, recently made quadriplegic, discusses his daily battle with depression and his determination to overcome it and get on with his life. This program applauds the resilience and potential of the disabled, and their determination to be self-sufficient.
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