Books & Movies

Reading Lists by Age

Book cover of blind girl with three friends.

Book cover showing an open eye and title "Lost Sight"

Book cover of girl with long hair and title "Blindsided" in english and braille.

Try out these fiction and non-fiction book listsÌýthat provide stories and insights on blindness and visual impairments. Click on the images aboveÌýfor lists for different age groups.Ìý

Additional Booklists

  • Ìýfrom theÌýIris Center at Vanderbuilt UniversityÌý
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  • Goodreads-Ìý
  • from Teaching Students with Visual Impairments LLC

Movies

Explore these movies and documentariesÌýwith blind protagonists.

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Daredevil (2003)

Matt Murdock is a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and on the streets of New York as the masked vigilante, Daredevil.

Blindsight (2006)

A documentary following six blind, Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri mountain in the shadow of Mount Everest.

At First Sight (1999)

A romantic drama about a blind man who undergoes surgery to restore his sight. Based on the life story of Shirl Jennings.

Additional Movie Lists

  • Ìý- from CNIB, Canada
  • - from screenrant.com