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When you can see someone that has the same jersey
that you have on, you know, you root for that team.

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JANE SEYMOUR: From the early days of silent films to present day...

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from Chaplin to "X-Men," disability portrayals are ever-changing.

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There's virtually no people with disabilities present,

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you know, in the kind of fabric 
of the entertainment world.

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And that wallpaper is really our collective social wallpaper, right? It's how we see ourselves.

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If society got its ideas 
about people with disabilities from TV,

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they would think that basically, 
we're either pathetic or super-people.

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There's no denying that people are influenced by what they see in media.

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Images are so impactful that we can... we can overcome social barriers through media.

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I've worked so hard to do all these mainstream projects so that I wouldn't be pigeonholed.

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I said, "Here I am, getting in this accident; 
now I'm black all over again!"

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"Here we go, gotta start from scratch, 
'cause everybody gonna look down on us."

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"Here I go, grinding again!"

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TAYLOR HACKFORD: To be able to have those instances where you have somebody onscreen

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who is quote "disabled" but who is in charge of their life or discovering their life

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or in control, or you know, actually learns 
how to deal with life

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is an image that I hope we have more of now 
than we ever had before.

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Did you hear what I said, Forrest?

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You're the same as everybody else.
You are no different.

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I think God made me the way I am for a reason.

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Different, not less.

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I may speak differently, 
but it doesn't mean I'm different than you.

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I want to show you what I can do.

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Roll camera, please.

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I think we want to get to this point in the world where it's what you do that counts.

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It's what you can accomplish that counts,

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and we're not so concerned 
with how you look or how you get there.

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Hollywood is always at the forefront, 
in my mind, of causes,

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from acknowledging race relations and antisemitism and all of those kinds of things

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to acknowledging the same kind of bigotry that goes along with people with disabilities.

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It's not just for me.
It's not just for people with wheelchairs.

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It's for people that's deaf.
It's for people that's amputees.

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It's everybody.
Get on board!

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SEYMOUR: This star-studded documentary will showcase how media can transform our society,

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how film-making has changed over the decades, 
and most importantly,

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how an enlightened understanding of disability can have a positive impact on the world around us.