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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.
Theatrical
Dec 1, 1989
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 8, 2004
Theaters
3
Directors
Producers
Music
Studio
Sandollar Productions, New Yorker Films
Cast
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Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice)
V
Vito Russo
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
G
Gary Bauer
Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
R
Robert Bazell
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
T
Tom Brokaw
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
J
Jerry Falwell
Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
B
Bryant Gumbel
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
R
Rock Hudson
Self (archive footage)
C
Cleve Jones
Self
C
C. Everett Koop
Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)
L
Larry Kramer
Self (archive footage)
K
Kevin McCullough
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
A
Andrea Mitchell
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
E
Eddie Murphy
Self (archive footage)
R
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
E
Elizabeth Taylor
Self - Introduction Speaker
