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AIDS
Absolutely Positive (1990)
An Early Frost (1985)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003, TV)
Love! Valor! Compassion! (1997)
Philadelphia (1993)
Amputee
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" Aunt Mary (1979) (TV Film)
Blindness
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
Imagine (2012)
Ray (2004)
Cancer
50/50
(2011)
American Friend, The
(1977)
Beginners (2011)
Spoiler Alert (2022)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Walk to Remember, A (2002)
Deafness
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
CODA (2021)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Disfigurement
Disabilities
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot (2018)
Mask (1994)
Music Within (2007)
Passion Fish (1992)
Waterdance, The (1992)
Dwarfism
Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, The (1988)
Ballad of the Sad Café, The (1991)
Station Agent, The (2003)
Limb & Spinal
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Polio and Post-Polio
Affair, The (1973) (TV film)
Ape, The (1940)
Stress/Type A
Multiplicity (1996)
Severe Illness
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Traumatic Brain Injury
Regarding Henry (1991)