Freedom Machines (2004)

Directed by

Jamie Stobie, Janet Cole

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows people ages 8 to 93 who use modern technologies to gain more independence. It looks at how tools like a stair climbing wheelchair can change lives and examines the gap between the promise of disability rights laws and the everyday realities for people with disabilities.

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What happens

Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8–93, whose talents and independence are being unleashed by access to modern, enabling technologies. Nearly twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the film reflects on the gaps between its promise and the realities for our largest minority group – 54,000,000 Americans with disabilities. Whether mainstream tools or inventions such as a stair climbing wheelchair (iBOT), Freedom Machines examines the power of technology to change lives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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