Common Threads : Stories from the Quilt

This Oscar winning film celebrates five individuals who have died from AIDS. Through interviews, photos, home movies and other remembrances, the portraits of these five people and their loved ones show how they came to terms with their loss by participating in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The film also encapsulates the history of the AIDS epidemic as reported by the news media in the U.S. from 1981-89. Including an interview with writer Vito Russo. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman.

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Credits

co-director

Jeffrey Friedman

Robert Epstein

co-producer

Bill Couturie

Jeffrey Friedman

Robert Epstein

production company

Telling Pictures

Duration

01:17:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1989

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302626

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → AIDS (Disease)

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Epidemics

People → Russo, Vito

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q965200

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United States, 1989

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