Documentaries about autism

This page lists documentaries about autism, autistic people, and autism-adjacent topics. Please note that some of these may contain offensive, outdated, or blatantly false information. Inclusion on this page does not equal endorsement.

Longplay documentaries

 * 1976, Ce gamin, là
 * 2000, Child of Our Time (one of the children followed has Asperger's)
 * 2003, My Family and Autism
 * 2003, Refrigerator Mothers
 * 2006, Autism Every Day
 * 2006, Normal People Scare Me: A Film about Autism
 * 2007, Beautiful Young Minds (inspiration for the movie X+Y)
 * 2007, Autism: The Musical
 * 2007, 星星的孩子 (Children of the Stars)
 * 2008, Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back
 * 2009, The Autistic Me
 * 2009, The Horse Boy
 * 2009, Unlocking Autism
 * 2010, Dad's in Heaven with Nixon
 * 2010, Loving Lampposts
 * 2011, The Wall
 * 2012, Extreme Love: Autism
 * 2013, Best Kept Secret
 * 2013, Citizen Autistic
 * 2013, Neurotypical
 * 2013, There's Something About Susan
 * 2015, How to Dance in Ohio
 * 2016, Asperger's Are Us
 * 2016, Autism in Love
 * 2016; Best and Most Beautiful Things
 * 2016, Life, Animated
 * 2016, Normální autisticky film (Normal Autistic Film)
 * 2016, Off the Rails
 * 2016, Swim Team
 * 2017, Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me
 * 2017, Dina
 * 2018, Quelle Folie (What Madness)
 * 2019, On Tour with Asperger's Are Us
 * 2020, I Am Greta
 * 2021, Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism
 * 2022, Okay! The ASD Band Film

Episodes of documentary series

 * 2005, "The Boy with the Incredible Brain", Extraordinary People
 * 2006, "The Musical Genius", Extraordinary People
 * 2008, "The Human Camera", Extraordinary People
 * 2008, "The Rainman Twins", Extraordinary People
 * 2010, "Can't Make Me Be", The World of Jenks
 * 2018, "Love, Hope and Autism", CBC Docs POV

Facilitated communication

 * 2004, Autism Is a World
 * 2010, Wretches & Jabberers
 * 2017, Deej

Vaccines

 * 2016, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
 * 2019, Vaxxed II: The People's Truth