Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) on Netflix
R20201h 47mDocumentary
In 1971, teenagers with disabilities spend the summer at Camp Jened in New York. Judith Heumann and other campers go on to campaign for accessibility legislation.
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Camp Jened sits down the road from Woodstock, a summer camp in New York that is loose and free-spirited. It was built for teenagers with disabilities, and in 1971 its campers include Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, Denise Sherer Jacobson and Stephen Hofmann. The film tracks the ones who went on to join the disability rights movement and press for accessibility legislation.
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- James LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, had worked with Nicole Newnham for 15 years when he told her at a lunch meeting that he had always wanted a film made about his summer camp.
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