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Attending summer camp is a joyous time for many kids. For filmmaker Jim LeBrecht, it was life-changing. Born with spina bifida, LeBrecht first attended Camp Jened in upstate New York in 1970. The Netflix documentary Crip Camp, which he directed with Nicole Newnham, reveals how Jened allowed kids with disabilities to…

Can a summer camp change the world? If you're talking Camp Jened in upstate New York, a place that welcomed kids with disabilities for a generation, the answer is yes. "It was a utopia," camper Denise Sherer Jacobson recalls in Crip Camp, the Netflix documentary about Jened and how it helped spur the movement for…

You probably can tell right from its title that the blissfully politically incorrect Crip Camp is not going to be the standard documentary about the lives of America’s disabled population. Far from it. This freewheeling, uninhibited, lively and spirited film takes a different and refreshing approach that makes it a…