Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt 1989
8.1 / 10
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
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.
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.
Videos & Photos
All 2 Videos & 3 Photos
cast
Full Cast & Crew
... Narrator (voice)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
SM
Suzi Mandell... Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
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Release Date:
Dec 01, 1989 (United States)
Run Time:
1hr 19`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released
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Cast & Crew of
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Directors & Credit Writers
... Director
... Director
Cast
... Narrator (voice)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
SM
Suzi Mandell... Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
... Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
TT
Tracy Torrey... Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
GB
Gregg Baker... Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
GB
Gary Bauer... Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
... Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
KB
Kevin Boyle... Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
... Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)
... Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
... Self (archive footage)
... Self (archive footage)
MAC
Marcus A. Conant... Self (archive footage)
JC
James Curran... Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)
... Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
... Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
... Self (archive footage)
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