Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Name: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Director: Jeffrey Friedman
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: 1989-12-01
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman

Directed by Jeffrey Friedman

History

Documentary

19891h 20m6.9

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.