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PUSH takes audiences into the inner world of the “Wheelie Peeps,” an unlikely group of friends and wheelchair users, bonded by their shared experience of navigating life on wheels.

Documentary | Season 1

Push

Ian, a blunt unfiltered 20-something with cerebral palsy, navigates the social pressures of life in an unforgiving world not designed for wheels.

Comedy | Season 1

You're My Hero

What does it mean to be disabled and desirable? In Picture This, a new documentary by Jari Osborne, we meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple” who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse.

Season 1 | Picture This

After watching their care workers hook up at a bar, two strangers with cerebral palsy become determined to explore their own relationships with sex, and each other.

Comedy | 1 season

Latecomers

At age 17, Hugh Herr’s legs were amputated. Frustrated by the crude prosthetic limbs he was given, Herr set out to remedy their design, leading him to a career as an inventor of prosthetic devices.

Biography | 54 min

Augmented

Join hosts Steven Scott and Marc Aflalo as they help viewers better understand how technology can assist in everyday life.

Education | Season 3

Double Tap TV

Ellie Simmonds investigates a new wonder drug promising to make children with dwarfism grow closer to average height. If it can stop dwarfism, what are the complex repercussions?

Documentary | 59 min

Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism

Celebrity chefs Christine Ha and Carl Heinrich team up with special guests for an exciting cooking show with an accessibility twist.

Interview and talk-show | Season 4

Four Senses

The remarkable story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, personal archives and family testimonies reveal both the scale of Hawking's triumphs and the real cost of his disability and success.

Documentary | 90 min

Hawking: Can you Hear Me?

There's no rulebook for marriage, as two newlyweds navigate their way through love and independence. An uplifting story of life with Down's syndrome from the makers of The A Word.

Drama | 1 season

Ralph & Katie

In a joyous, life-affirming journey, Sophie Morgan meets different people united by a desire to build new lives around the things they love.

Documentary | 1 season

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life

The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then, their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family anymore.

Drama | 3 seasons

The A Word

Meet four Canadians with blindness at various stages learning to use a white cane. We explore the impact of that transition on their navigation and life.

Documentary | 48 min

White Cane Journeys

Three roommates on the autistic spectrum, share an apartment and cope with the world around them.

On the Spectrum

Join Maria Bamford in conversation with fellow comedians about mental health.

Interview and talk-show | 1 season

What's Your Ailment with Maria Bamford

Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist-priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come at the cost of his own family and health.

Documentary | 87 min

The Departure

Red Button is a powerful and captivating format that explores the different ways we see and experience the same reality.

Documentary | Season 2

Red Button

Best friends, Kate and Michael, who are deaf, try to balance their personal and professional lives. She's newly engaged and struggles to grow at work, while he battles self-destructive writer's block after having his heartbroken.

Drama | 2 seasons

This Close

Being born with a debilitating stutter, Joze Piranian did everything he could to avoid situations where he was required to talk.  While this strategy allowed him to successfully circumvent embarrassing moments, it was leading him toward a life of sadness and despair. To break free from this mental prison he chose to do the one thing that scared him the most and it was then that he began his career as a comedian.

Season 1 | Joze Piranian

Top Ten Event

After a mountain biking accident left Rob Buren paralyzed from the waist down, this husband and father of two young girls decided to overcome his newfound reality by setting goals that most able-bodied people could never dream of.

Season 1 | Rob Buren

You Can’t Ask asks the misunderstood, judged, or stigmatised people in society, the questions you've always wanted to know the answers to. It's about breaking down stereotypes and offering genuine insight into the lives of people who live with labels.

Documentary | 2 seasons

You Can't Ask That

Relationship counselor works with neurologically diverse young people and people with developmental disabilities as they navigate the world of dating.

Documentary | 54 min

Love Me As I Am

Academy Award-winning director John Zaritsky follows the lives of Thalidomide survivors and unveils a sinister and long-hidden complicity by the drug manufacturer.

Documentary | 78 min

No Limits

Montreal filmmaker Helgi Piccinin follows his younger brother, Stéphane, who has autism, on a three-year journey to the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi. Along the way we get to know Audrey Vincent (QC) and Malcolm Borso (BC) and 20 other Canadian athletes from NL to BC with intellectual disabilities as they pursue their passions to become world champions in their divisions.

Season 20 | Champions

Absolutely Canadian

How does a blind playwright get her vision of the controversial book Passing-about passing as another race-on to the stage? Vivi has the spot in the Fringe Festival...now all she has to do is write it, cast it, and stage it.

Season 20 | Vivi's Vision

Journalist and athlete Ade Adepitan travels from West Africa through Central and Eastern Africa and on to the deep south of the continent - the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Documentary | 4 episodes

Africa with Ade Adepitan

A short documentary about Dima Joha, a para-athlete and Syrian refugee who is pursuing her passion for table tennis and has ambitions to represent Canada one day.

Documentary | 24 min

Dima's Game

Twenty-four-year-old Marnie is witty, smart and ‘normal’, apart from the relentless barrage of x-rated thoughts in her head. Unbeknown to Marnie, she’s in the grip of a remarkable form of obsessive-compulsive disorder - nicknamed ‘Pure O’.

Pure (UK)

Charles Wilton has been fighting for his whole life. Abandoned by his birth parents, Charles was placed in the foster care system as an infant and abused by his caregivers. His disability was misdiagnosed many times. Doctors said he would never speak. As a child, Charles fought to be removed from special needs classrooms when school administrators didn’t understand that his disability affected his body — not his mind. At age seven, Charles was officially diagnosed with Quadriplegic Spastic Cerebral Palsy. He was adopted by this speech therapist and, with intensive therapy, was able to start using his voice to communicate. In high school, Charles found athletics and set a world record in race running. Life was still difficult. In the years following high school, Charles attempted suicide three times. He was barreling toward rock bottom when he started working out again. Training as a boxer became his priority. At a leadership workshop, Charles met Sean — who later became his manager. The two started searching for Charles’ first official fight. They set up a match in the UK and raised money to travel to the event. The fight was guaranteed as a sanctioned event — but days before the match, the organizers decided that they didn’t want to take on the liability of wheelchair boxing. Instead, they used Charles to demonstrate a training product. Charles returned home defeated and feeling like he’d been used as a “side-show.” Frustrated with all the major boxing organizations saying “no” to a fight, Charles took to social media. He connected with Jesse, another disabled boxer, and they decided to organize their own wheelchair boxing match — against each other. Charles and Jesse are fighting for something bigger than their own right to fight. They’re frustrated with how disabled people are treated and have decided to put on a demonstration to show the world just how tough they are.

Documentary | 16 min

Dream Boxer

Harnessing the power of horses to help change the lives of people with physical and mental challenges.

Season 18 | Therapeutic Riding

Land and Sea Network

From a performer lovingly dubbed “Trash Can Picasso” to an artist adapting her practice after going blind, these creators take lost objects - or their experience of loss - and use them to create art.

Season 4 | Lost & Found

CBC Arts: Exhibitionists

What happens when a Deaf amateur theatre director and his hearing girlfriend unite a group of 30 Deaf and hearing people to mount a unique adaptation of The Little Mermaid? Turns out: a whole lot of drama, onstage and off. That's the story we're telling in Seen & Heard, a new CBC Arts digital series coming later this fall. And for International Day of Sign Languages, we're bringing you this special sneak peek.

Seen & Heard

Lazylegz was born with a neuromuscular disorder - and he uses it to breakdance like no one else.

Season 1 | Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli

The Move

First responders describe the long-term effects of what they've witnessed and the need for more support to treat a PTSD epidemic.

Season 1 | After The Sirens

CBC Docs POV

Love, Hope, & Autism - based on home movies - is an extraordinarily intimate look inside a family as they deal with autism from birth to adulthood, and agonize over what happens next.

Season 1 | Love, Hope, & Autism

This contemporary dance films transports the audience into the mind of Karenza, a dance instructor who suffers from bipolar disorder. While mental illness is usually an internal struggle, views are led through Karenza's battle with mental illness when her manic, depressive and mixed cycle swings manifest themselves.

Documentary | 8 min

Exposed Nerves

Most people experience trauma at least once. For many the memories fade with time. But for some they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.

Season 56 | PTSD: Beyond Trauma

The Nature of Things

Sharing stories of people with disabilities.

PUSH takes us into the inner world of the “wheelie peeps”.

Two strangers commence in each other's dysfunctional lives.

Two newlyweds navigate their way through love.

Hugh Herr leads him to a career as an inventor of prosthetic

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Push

You're My Hero

NFB

Latecomers

Augmented

Double Tap TV

Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism

Four Senses

Hawking: Can you Hear Me?

Ralph & Katie

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life

The A Word

White Cane Journeys

On the Spectrum

What's Your Ailment with Maria Bamford

The Departure

Red Button

This Close

Top Ten Event

Top Ten Event

You Can't Ask That

Love Me As I Am

No Limits

Absolutely Canadian

Absolutely Canadian

Africa with Ade Adepitan

Dima's Game

Pure (UK)

Dream Boxer

Land and Sea Network

CBC Arts: Exhibitionists

Seen & Heard

The Move

CBC Docs POV

CBC Docs POV

Exposed Nerves

The Nature of Things