Narrator (voice)
Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
6.9
1989
1h 20m
HistoryDocumentary
Director: Jeffrey Friedman
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.
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Cast
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Sara Lewinstein
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
David Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Suzi Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Sallie Perryman
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Vito Russo
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Tracy Torrey
Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Gregg Baker
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Gary Bauer
Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Robert Bazell
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Kevin Boyle
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)
Edward Brandt
Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)
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