Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Documentary 1989 · 1h 20m

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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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Dustin Hoffman Narrator (voice)

S Sara Lewinstein Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

D David Mandell Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

S Suzi Mandell Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

S Sallie Perryman Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

Vito Russo Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

T Tracy Torrey Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

G Gregg Baker Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

G Gary Bauer Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)

R Robert Bazell Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

K Kevin Boyle Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

E Edward Brandt Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)

Tom Brokaw Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

B Bobbi Campbell Self (archive footage)

D David C. Campbell Self (archive footage)

M Marcus A. Conant Self (archive footage)

J James Curran Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)

B Bolton Eckert Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

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