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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

History Documentary
Release Date: 1989, December 1
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Countries: United States of America
Production: Sandollar Productions, New Yorker Films, New Yorker Films
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dustin Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Bryant Gumbel, James Watkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Cleve Jones, Gregg Baker, Tom Waddell, C. Everett Koop, Larry Kramer

Overview:

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

Keywords:

lgbt 1980s aids hiv