Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
As a result of a terrible car accident, young Ukrainian athlete Oksana Boturchuk suffers several serious injuries, almost losing her eyesight. However, after long rehabilitation and a returning to incredible training, she is able to conquer a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Het verhaal begint in 1944, als het ziekenhuis van het Engelse dorp Stoke Mandeville wordt verblijd met de komst van dokter Ludwig Guttmann. De gedreven arts blijkt al gauw een ware bron van inspiratie voor iedereen. De patiënten van het ziekenhuis zijn verlamde militairen. De wereld heeft hen afgeschreven, niemand heeft meer oog voor hen. Maar dokter Guttmann zorgt voor een doorbraak in hun leven, door sport te introduceren als onderdeel van het revalidatieproces.
The true story of Cheah Liek Hou, badminton athlete who won the 2020 Paralympic gold medal under the guidance of Rashid Sidek.
On the cusp of turning 40, wheelchair badminton champion Nina Gorodetsky, has her first and maybe last, chance to participate in the Paralympics. However, she is negotiating a ticking biological clock both as a mother and as an athlete. What would she be willing to sacrifice to realize her Olympic dream?
As an athlete with an impairment drives his 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son to run one of their first triathlon races, he recalls the most difficult challenge he ever faced: an Ironman; one of the most strenuous physical and mental races involving 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km of biking and a run of 42 km, in a single day. The movie explores how children perceive this crazy idea.
A professional skier gets into a life-changing car accident the day he discovers he has qualified for the Olympics. After losing a leg in the wreck, the athlete sinks into a deep depression- until one day he is offered a chance to try his luck with the country's Paralympic team.
Moroccan paralympic gold medalist Azzedine Nouiri is no longer looking for the longest throw, but to overthrow the system that keeps athletes with different abilities marginalized as destitute second-class citizens.
The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey to athletes, who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed avowed hater of sport who cannot understand how anyone could take on such an odeal voluntarily. Even more since everyday life for people with a disability is most often challenging enough. He meets U.S.archer Matt Stutzman, Norwegian table tennis player Aida Dahlen, German swimmer Christiane Reppe, Greek boccia player Greg Polychronidis and a Sitting Volleyball team. Niko neither spares the athletes nor himself asking questions about life, sport and fears. With an ever growing appreciation for sport Niko attends the Paralympic Games and travels back to the ancient city of Olympia, where everything began and where boccia playing is prohibited.