Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Netflix
A movement that began in 1971, in a joyously anarchic summer camp for disabled teenagers at Jened in the Catskill mountains of New York, led to a revolution in civil rights. “What we saw at that camp was that somehow our lives could be different,” was how one former camper remembered it.
This documentary – with Barack and Michelle Obama on the production team – is compiled of old footage and interviews with those who joined the camp and the activism that followed, and it’s an inspiring tour de force. At a time when there’s much talk of channelling the Blitz spirit, Crip Camp is a reminder of the wild radicalism of the hippy spirit of the late 1960s and the grassroots activism that brought about lasting change in both legislation and attitudes.