Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- 1989
- 1h 19m
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A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 4 wins total
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Gregg Baker
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
Gary Bauer
- Self - Policy Advisor to the President
- (archive footage)
Robert Bazell
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
Kevin Boyle
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
Edward Brandt
- Self - Assistant Secretary for Health
- (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
Bobbi Campbell
- Self
- (archive footage)
David C. Campbell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Marcus A. Conant
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Marcus A. Conant M.D.)
James Curran
- Self - Center for Disease Control
- (archive footage)
- (as James Curran M.D.)
Bolton Eckert
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
- (as Barton Eckert)
Jerry Falwell
- Self - Moral Majority Leader
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaThe documentary was the first project of Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin's Sandollar Productions not to feature Parton (having previously produced her film "A Smoky Mountain Christmas" in 1986 and her ABC variety series "Dolly" in 1987-88). Subsequent projects from their company included the Steve Martin "Father of the Bride" films, "Shinning Through," "Sabrina," "IQ," and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer."
- Quotes
Narrator: It took Rock Hudson's death to capture America's attention. By that time, AIDS had already killed 15 thousand of other Americans. Rock Hudson is the most famous name in the giant quilt, a memorial to ten thousand names of men, women and children who came along very different roads to the same fate.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)
- SoundtracksCommon Threads
Written and Performed by Bobby McFerrin
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Who ever would've guessed that another celebrity would get elected and ignore a pandemic?
I first learned of Rob Epstein's "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt" about a quarter of a century ago when reading a list of Academy Award-winners. I've finally gotten around to seeing it. What an impressive story. It's so sad that millions of people worldwide succumbed to AIDS while governments ignored it (in fact, interviewee Vito Russo died the year after the documentary's release). Part of what we can do is keep alive the memory of those who sought to raise the public's awareness. This documentary is part of that. Definitely see it.
To think that decades later, another authoritarian-minded celebrity-turned-demagogue used racism to get elected president and then ignored a pandemic.
To think that decades later, another authoritarian-minded celebrity-turned-demagogue used racism to get elected president and then ignored a pandemic.
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By what name was Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) officially released in Canada in English?
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