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Name of film: Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Topics: quadriplegia, independent living movement, polio, iron-lung, poetry
Brief Summary: An award-winning documentary about Mark O'Brien, stricken by polio in his youth, who lived in an iron lung while completing college and publishing articles and poetry on disability related issues, baseball, sex, and other topics.
Date of Release: 1996
Length: 35 minutes
Where to get it: Fanlight Productions