Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

History|

Documentary|

7/10

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.

Dustin Hoffman

Sara Lewinstein

David Mandell

Suzi Mandell

Sallie Perryman

Vito Russo

Tracy Torrey

Gregg Baker

Gary Bauer

Robert Bazell

Kevin Boyle

Edward Brandt

Tom Brokaw

Bobbi Campbell

David C. Campbell

Marcus A. Conant

James Curran

Bolton Eckert

Jerry Falwell

Virginia Fedosky

Emil Guillermo

Bryant Gumbel

Tim Haas

Robert Hager

Charles Howard

Rock Hudson

Cleve Jones

C. Everett Koop

Larry Kramer

Roger Gail Lyon

David Mandell Jr.

Kevin McCullough

Andrea Mitchell

Eddie Murphy

Mark Ostfield

Marcia Pally

John Palmer

Hampton Pearson

Robert Perryman

John Politano

Josie Politano

Randy Ray

Robert Ray

Ricky Ray

Ronald Reagan

Neil Schram

Heidi Schulman

Jeffrey Sevcik

Elizabeth Taylor

Tom Waddell

Gary Walsh

James Watkins

Linda Yee