Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

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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  • Release Date: 1989-12-01
  • Runtime: 1h 19min
  • Directors: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein.

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  • Trailer

    Cast

    • Dustin Hoffman

      Narrator (voice)

    • Sara Lewinstein

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

    • David Mandell

      Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

    • Suzi Mandell

      Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

    • Sallie Perryman

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

    • Vito Russo

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

    • Tracy Torrey

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

    • Gregg Baker

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Gary Bauer

      Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)

    • Robert Bazell

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Kevin Boyle

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Edward Brandt

      Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)

    • Tom Brokaw

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Bobbi Campbell

      Self (archive footage)

    • David C. Campbell

      Self (archive footage)

    • Marcus A. Conant

      Self (archive footage)

    • James Curran

      Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)

    • Bolton Eckert

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Jerry Falwell

      Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)

    • Virginia Fedosky

      Self (archive footage)

    • Emil Guillermo

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Bryant Gumbel

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Tim Haas

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Robert Hager

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Charles Howard

      Self (archive footage)

    • Rock Hudson

      Self (archive footage)

    • Cleve Jones

      Self

    • C. Everett Koop

      Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)

    • Larry Kramer

      Self (archive footage)

    • Roger Gail Lyon

      Self (archive footage)

    • David Mandell Jr.

      Self (archive footage)

    • Kevin McCullough

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Andrea Mitchell

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Eddie Murphy

      Self (archive footage)

    • Mark Ostfield

      Self (archive footage)

    • Marcia Pally

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • John Palmer

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Hampton Pearson

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Robert Perryman

      Self (archive footage)

    • John Politano

      Self

    • Josie Politano

      Self

    • Randy Ray

      Self (archive footage)

    • Robert Ray

      Self (archive footage)

    • Ricky Ray

      Self (archive footage)

    • Ronald Reagan

      Self (archive footage)

    • Neil Schram

      Self - Los Angeles AIDS Task Force (archive footage)

    • Heidi Schulman

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Jeffrey Sevcik

      Self (archive footage)

    • Elizabeth Taylor

      Self - Introduction Speaker

    • Tom Waddell

      Self (archive footage)

    • Gary Walsh

      Self (archive footage)

    • James Watkins

      Self - Presidential AIDS Commission (archive footage)

    • Linda Yee

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

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