Care or Cure?

A romantic drama in which an Austrian Lieutenant befriends a disabled Baroness.

Enter Peter’s world of awkward conversations, resentful bosses and psychedelic pub carpets as he comes to terms with being newly-disabled.

One of the Troop - awkward attempts at including disabled young people in Scouting in the Sixties

Johnny Be Good... a silent docudrama about curing disabled children, set in 1920s London

A village for the mentally impaired, with residents working on a local farm in a progressive project aimed at a fully flourishing life for all.

Being wheelchair users is not a barrier to these children doing slaloms or throwing javelins, gaining confidence and changing perceptions.

An innovative drama-doc, one of the first to deal seriously with clinical depression

A reminder of pre-war institutional care as the patients of Bracebridge Mental Hospital go for gold in their annual hospital sports.

Kindly doctors and caring professionals – a view from the Seventies into how children with learning difficulties were treated.

This timely documentary about Botton Village community raises key issues around the principles of care of those with learning difficulties.

Despite mental health problems, these patients enjoy themselves as they tackle an obstacle race and have pillow fights sat on a greasy pole.

Miss Clara Deacon, matron (or 'commandant' as the press refer to her) of this pioneering hospital, accompanies the royal patron on his visit.

A shocking and powerful edition of This Week focusing on women unnecessarily institutionalised for decades for defying societal conventions.

Acclaimed author Bernice Rubens’ hard-hitting film about disabled children and the family.

Refusing to take 'no' for an answer, a young woman takes matters into her own hands, with embarrassing results.

This amateur film meets children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities at a Bristol school.

Eye-opening drama-doc, originally used in psychiatric nursing training.

A chilling insight into the brave new world of pre-Holocaust eugenics

Patients at Epsom’s Manor Hospital learn new skills: an important record of changing attitudes about learning difficulty

By a mixture of bio-dynamics and patience, the co-workers and those with special needs of Botton Village gain satisfaction in eking a living.

An early example of integrating people with learning difficulties at a time when ideas of normalisation and community care were emerging.

An afternoon of balloons, song and dance with the Gang Show in Ribchester.

Join the disabled girls from the Halliwick Girls School, Winchmore Hill, on a day out to the seaside for boating, yo-yos and ice cream.

Lufton Manor offers residential care for the mentally handicapped.

An affecting film of children with severe physical impairments, segregated in a special school, at play and coping with their class work.

Undaunted under canvas: Girl Guides help push the boundaries for disabled children

Who will be the 'one'? This medical drama-doc, exploring mental health and illness, is stylish, nail-biting stuff.

A study of people's unconscious cruelty towards those who appear to be different.

Living with Spina Bifida: two survivors who have overcome being labelled "doomed to die" by doctors.

A morality lesson from the 1920s to teach us that it is sinful to not attempt to cure disability.