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.

Genres

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Narrator (voice)

Vito Russo

Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

Tom Brokaw

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Bryant Gumbel

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Rock Hudson

Self (archive footage)

Cleve Jones

Self

Larry Kramer

Self (archive footage)

Andrea Mitchell

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Eddie Murphy

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

Self - Introduction Speaker