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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

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1st Dec 89 /

History, Documentary

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.

Series Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Narrator (voice)

Sara Lewinstein

Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

David Mandell

Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

Suzi Mandell

Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

Sallie Perryman

Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

Vito Russo

Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

Tracy Torrey

Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

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)

James Curran

Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)

Bolton Eckert

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Jerry Falwell

Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)

Virginia Fedosky

Self (archive footage)

Emil Guillermo

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Bryant Gumbel

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Tim Haas

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Robert Hager

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Charles Howard

Self (archive footage)

Rock Hudson

Self (archive footage)

Cleve Jones

Self

C. Everett Koop

Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)

Larry Kramer

Self (archive footage)

Roger Gail Lyon

Self (archive footage)

David Mandell Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Kevin McCullough

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Andrea Mitchell

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Eddie Murphy

Self (archive footage)

Mark Ostfield

Self (archive footage)

Marcia Pally

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

John Palmer

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Hampton Pearson

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Robert Perryman

Self (archive footage)

John Politano

Self

Josie Politano

Self

Randy Ray

Self (archive footage)

Robert Ray

Self (archive footage)

Ricky Ray

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Neil Schram

Self - Los Angeles AIDS Task Force (archive footage)

Heidi Schulman

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Jeffrey Sevcik

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

Self - Introduction Speaker

Tom Waddell

Self (archive footage)

Gary Walsh

Self (archive footage)

James Watkins

Self - Presidential AIDS Commission (archive footage)

Linda Yee

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

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