Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt backdrop
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt poster
Trailer
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
7.2
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1h 19m
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1989
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Dustin Hoffman poster
Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice)
Sara Lewinstein poster
Sara Lewinstein
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
David Mandell poster
David Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Suzi Mandell poster
Suzi Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Sallie Perryman poster
Sallie Perryman
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Vito Russo poster
Vito Russo
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Tracy Torrey poster
Tracy Torrey
Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Gregg Baker poster
Gregg Baker
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Gary Bauer poster
Gary Bauer
Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Robert Bazell poster
Robert Bazell
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Kevin Boyle poster
Kevin Boyle
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Edward Brandt poster
Edward Brandt
Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw poster
Tom Brokaw
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Bobbi Campbell poster
Bobbi Campbell
Self (archive footage)
David C. Campbell poster
David C. Campbell
Self (archive footage)
Marcus A. Conant poster
Marcus A. Conant
Self (archive footage)
James Curran poster
James Curran
Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)
Bolton Eckert poster
Bolton Eckert
Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Jerry Falwell poster
Jerry Falwell
Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
Virginia Fedosky poster
Virginia Fedosky
Self (archive footage)

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