| 词条 | Lives Worth Living |
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| name = Lives Worth Living | image = | alt = | caption = yes | director = Eric Neudel | producer = Alison Gilkey | starring = | music = John Kusiak & P. Andrew Willis | cinematography = Eric Neudel | editing = Bernice Schneider | studio = | distributor = Storyline Motion Pictures & Independent Television Service (ITVS) | released = {{Film date|2011|10|27|Independent Lens}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}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[1] 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.[2][3][4] BackgroundThe disability rights movement is a civil and human rights movement wherein people with disabilities fight against discrimination and demand equal access and equal opportunity to everything society has to offer, including employment, housing, transportation, telecommunications and state and local government services.[5] SynopsisThe documentary intersperses archival footage with first-person interviews with disability rights activists who fought discrimination such as Fred Fay, I. King Jordan, Judi Chamberlin and Judith Heumann, and with legislators who helped draft and secure the passage of the ADA, including Tony Coelho and Tom Harkin. From the beginnings of the disability rights movement, when veterans with disabilities returning home from World War II began to demand an end to discrimination and for better access to employment and other social opportunities, Lives Worth Living traces the history of the movement in the United States in roughly chronological order. The film documents how, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, activists with disabilities began to adopt some of the tactics and strategies used by civil rights activists a decade earlier, including marches, protests, and civil disobedience. Using sometimes-disturbing archival footage, Lives Worth Living describes efforts spearheaded by activists and politicians like Bobby Kennedy to shine a public spotlight on the often-horrendous conditions in state institutions for people with mental disabilities, such as Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, eventually leading to deinstitutionalization and community-based alternative programs. Lives Worth Living also documents how, in 1988, Deaf students at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. protested the appointment of yet another in a long line of hearing presidents, and demanded that a deaf president be appointed instead. People with disabilities formed cross-disability coalitions to demand access to all the things that nondisabled people take for granted, including public transportation, accessible housing, public accommodations, and jobs. All these efforts culminated in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act by Congress, and the ADA's signing by President George H. W. Bush on July 26, 1990.[6] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://technorati.com/entertainment/article/lives-worth-living-examines-history-of/ |title=Lives Worth Living Examines History of Civil Rights for Disabled Movement |work=Technorati |accessdate=October 30, 2011}} 2. ^{{cite news |first=Cheryl |last=Lecesse |title=Documentary on disability rights tells Concord resident's story |url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/features/x493116045/Documentary-on-disability-rights-tells-Concord-residents-story |work=The Concord Journal |date=2011-10-27 |accessdate=2011-09-30 }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lives-worth-living/ |title=Lives Worth Living on Independent Lens on PBS |work=Independent Lens on PBS |accessdate=October 30, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.itvs.org/films/lives-worth-living |title=Lives Worth Living -- ITVS |work=ITVS |accessdate=October 30, 2011}} 5. ^{{cite book |title=Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality |last=Switzer |first=Jacqueline Vaughn |year=2003 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |location=Washington DC |isbn=0878408983 |pages=8–9}} 6. ^{{cite news |first=Neil |last=Genzlinger |title=An American Minority’s Road to Rights |url=http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/arts/television/lives-worth-living-on-independent-lens-review.html |work=The New York Times |date=2011-10-26 |accessdate=2011-09-29 }} Further reading
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