Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
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.
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Dustin HoffmanNarrator (voice)Sara LewinsteinStoryteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)David MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Cleve JonesSelfSuzi MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)Sallie PerrymanStoryteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Vito RussoStoryteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)Tracy TorreyStoryteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)Gregg BakerSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)Gary BauerSelf - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)Robert BazellSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)Kevin BoyleSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)Keywords
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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.
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