Common threads [vhs] stories from the quilt a Telling Pictures and the Couturie Company production ; Telling Pictures, Inc. & the Names Project Foundation ; directed and edited by Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman ; produced by Bill Couturie, Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman ; writers, Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Cindy Ruskin.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.\\Norm Freund\Philosophy of Sex and Love\PHIL 260 Music, Bobby McFerrin. Videocassette release of the 1989 documentary. Dustin Hoffman. Narrator: Dustin Hoffman.
Contents:
The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweaving these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development and the negligence of the government.
Summary:
The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from AIDS.
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