Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

10/10/2026

This isn't so much a documentary about this one specific and ground-breaking camp deep in the Catskills, as an historical retrospective of attitudes to and by the disabled in the United States over the last few decades. We do start at "Camp Jened" though, where young folks engaged in a bit of free love and life and where they made enduring friendships that were going to become useful later in their lives as they took on the challenge of ensuring a better deal for themselves and millions like them in the future. Using an impressive array of archive from both official sources and some really quite engaging and entertaining home movies, this makes a strong and potent political statement but wraps it nicely in a format that doesn't come across as a rant. It doesn't take a position from which t