Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
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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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Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice)
Tom Brokaw
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Jerry Falwell
Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
Sara Lewinstein
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Vito Russo
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Sallie Perryman
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Gary Bauer
Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Virginia Fedosky
Self (archive footage)
Bolton Eckert
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
James Curran
Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)
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