A ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, just down the road from Woodstock, is the starting point of Crip Camp, a 2020 documentary that runs 106 minutes and follows its campers from those summers into a wider public movement.
What is Crip Camp about?
The documentary begins at a modest, run-down summer camp set up for teenagers with disabilities, not far from the town whose name became shorthand for a generation's counterculture. For the young people who attended, the camp offered weeks among peers, away from the routines and limits they knew at home. From there the account widens. It traces how the friendships and shared experience of camp carried into adulthood and fed into an organised movement concerned with the rights of people with disabilities. The story moves from the camp grounds to the public sphere, treating the camp as the place where many of the people involved first met, and the later movement as something that grew out of that meeting.
About the cast
Crip Camp is a documentary, so the people on screen appear as themselves rather than as performers in written roles. The catalogue entry for this title does not list director or cast credits, and this page therefore does not name individuals.
Context & significance
The film belongs to the documentary genre and deals with a chapter of social history: how a group of teenagers with disabilities, brought together at a summer camp, later became part of a landmark movement. The reference to Woodstock places the camp in the setting of the counterculture years, and the film uses that setting as background rather than as its subject. The title was released in 2020 and has a running time of 106 minutes, which puts it at standard feature length. It has been warmly received by viewers. This page describes the film's subject and scope only and does not take a position on the questions it covers.
Watching Crip Camp on Ktime
Crip Camp is listed in the K-Time catalogue. This page is free to read; playing the film requires signing in with a K-Time account. K-Time is a Persian-focused streaming service for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi interface available alongside English, so the title can be found and played from the same menus as the rest of the library.