Accessible cinema shows have transformed the social lives of thousands of film fans with hearing loss. For a few hours, the disabling barrier is removed. Subtitled shows provide social benefits such as equality, inclusion and community integration and have made a positive, cultural, long-term impact on society. They benefit people of all ages. Hundreds of thousands of young people have hearing loss (RNID/AOHL). Each year, almost a thousand children are born in the UK with significant hearing loss (NDCS). Our society is ageing, and with ageing, loss of some hearing is inevitable. Access to film - via subtitles - is something that we may all appreciate, eventually.