Special features: Commentary with Director David France and ACT UP Activists Heidi Dorow, Joy Episalla, Bob Lederer and Ron Medley ; deleted scenes; trailer. Featuring Peter Staley and Larry Kramer.
Summary:
The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time.
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