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Crip Camp Accessibility Features
- Crip Camp official audio described trailer, on YouTube;
- Crip Camp full movie with optional closed captioning, on YouTube;
- Crip Camp full movie with open captions and audio description, on YouTube;
- Crip Camp full movie with multi-language options for audio description, closed captions and subtitles, on Netflix.
Film runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Film rating: R for brief nudity, brief language and some sexual references. Common Sense Media rated this film as appropriate for ages 15+.
Curriculum Guide
Lesson 1: Media Literacy: Understanding What You Are Watching (Media Literacy, Film Studies)
Lesson 2: Power and Disability Justice: An Introduction (English Language Arts, Social Studies)
Lesson 3: Civil Rights, Human Rights and Power (Social Studies, Government, Civics)
Lesson 4: Language Power and Ableism (English Language Arts, Social Studies)
Lesson 5: The Strategic Use of Power (Social Studies, Government, Civics)
Discussion Guide
- Meet the Directors
- Welcome to Camp Jened (About Camp Jened)
- Coming Together/Saying Goodbye
- Taking to the Streets
- Systems That Fail Us
- Independent Living
- The 504 Sit-In
- The Capital Crawl and the American Disability Act
- What Is Your Role?
- Resources for Further Study
Glossary of Film Terms
The Glossary of Film Terms is useful for the Film Literacy lessons that are part of this curriculum guide.
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Related Resources
- Crip Camp is featured in our Civics and Civic Engagement Lessons and Media Literacy and Journalism Lessons collections.
- Teaching about Activism and Civil Disobedience? This film combines well with Rebel Hearts, Summer of Soul. and The Crisis Scientists.
- Journeys in Film Executive Director Jen Fischer interviewed Crip Camp co-director James LeBrecht for Video Librarian: Interview with Crip Camp Documentary Filmmaker Jim LeBrecht.
- Crip Camp was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Learn more about teaching with our Academy Award-wining films.
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