Temple Grandin
Actor · b. 1947 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”. Description above from the Wikipedia article Temple Grandin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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MovieDocumentaryFollows children, adults, and veterans living with physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges who find a lifeline forward at ROCK Ride On Center for Kids. Through the motion of riding and the calming presence of horses, walls begin to come down and healing takes hold, as participants discover connection, courage, and purpose.
Movie7.6DocumentaryOliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
2021 · 13 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryFilmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little-known world, in a documentary which chronicles Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff's personal odyssey to make sense of their child's autism, and find healing for him and themselves in the unlikeliest of places.
The Horse Boy
2009 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryAn Open Door is the international award-winning documentary that reflects on the influential life and work of Dr. Temple Grandin as a champion of the humane treatment of livestock, autism rights, and inclusive neurodiversity by employing her gifted insights from her personal experience with autism and visual thinking. The film speaks with Dr. Grandin, her colleagues, industry professionals and those she has influenced to celebrate her groundbreaking life, lessons learned and lasting legacy. An Open Door is directed by award-winning filmmaker John Barnhardt and presented by Colorado State University.
An Open Door
2023 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryJack is a vegan activist. His father is a slaughterhouse worker. After years of avoiding the subject, Jack sets out to confront the unspoken tension between them.
MovieDocumentaryA documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.
Movie7.3DocumentaryModern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre factories, hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries set out to investigate. The documentary takes viewers on a sometimes funny, sometimes frightening adventure, crawling through the bushes that hide these factories, flying in airplanes above their toxic manure lagoons, and coming face-to-face with their owners.
Speciesism: The Movie
2013 · 6 votes
Movie9.5DocumentaryHistoryIn this investigation, filmmaker Timothy P. Mahoney examines the journey to the crossing location, looking at two competing views of the Red Sea Miracle. One he calls the “Egyptian Approach,” which looks near Egypt. The other he calls the “Hebrew Approach,” which looks far from Egypt to the Gulf of Aqaba where divers have been searching for the remains of Pharaoh’s army on the seafloor. The investigation raises giant questions about the real location for the crossing site and its implications on your view of God. The answers to these questions point to one of two very different realities.
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
2020 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryThis Business Of Autism is an expository documentary film about the economic and societal benefits of employing young adults with autism. The film addresses the positive impacts of developing profitable businesses while leveraging the unique capabilities of adults with autism, at the crossroads of government programs, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and family.
Movie7.5DocumentaryJoin investigative filmmaker Timothy Mahoney in the first of a two-film investigation following the Israelite's journey from the parting of the sea to Mt Sinai. Exodus Explorers, claim they have found physical evidence of this biblical event.
Patterns of Evidence: Journey to Mount Sinai
2022 · 2 votes
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Award-winning filmmaker Marianne Kaplan shares her son’s struggle to graduate elementary school in this intensely personal documentary about growing up with Asperger Syndrome.
The Boy Inside
2006
MovieAnimationDocumentaryA documentary about autism and sensory perception that features live-action and animated segments.
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An animated documentary short made by people with autism.
A Is for Autism
1992 · 9 votes