It's The Same World

The film is a plea for full participation and equality for the disabled.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:20:12
• Production Date: 20 February 1981
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND - IMF; UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION - UNESCO; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION - UNESCO; UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISABILITY
• Geographic Subject: CANADA; ETHIOPIA; INDIA; PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: 1952505
• Parent Id: 839710

Description

Shot on location in various parts of the world, it depicts children in the Philippines who can neither hear nor speak, a brain-damaged child in India, an Ethiopian cripple learning a trade so that he can support his family with dignity, and a Mexican polio victim, whose mother uses therapy to help her daughter walk. Also featured is Terry Fox, the Canadian youth who lost his right leg to cancer and yet set out to run across Canada. The world of the disabled is not a special world, but the same world in which we all live.

• Scripts: File; DOC IT'S THE SAME WORLD WORLD 1981 EN 593 SCRIPT 81.pdf (460.86 KB); File; DOC IT'S THE SAME WORLD WORLD 1981 EN 593 SYNOPSIS FEB 81.pdf (128.74 KB)