Lives Worth Living (2011)

Directed by

Eric Neudel

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the story of the disability rights movement in the United States from the 1940s through the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. It shows the activists who fought for equal treatment and access.

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What happens

Lives Worth Living is a 2011 documentary film directed by Eric Neudel and produced by Alison Gilkey, and broadcast by PBS through ITVS, as part of the Independent Lens series. The film is the first television chronicle of the history of the American disability rights movement from the post-World War II era until the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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