Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Directed by Robert Epstein / Jeffrey Friedman
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Synopsis by Rose of Sharon Winter
This film, narrated by Dustin Hoffman, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1989. Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt helps put faces on the names on the quilt of those who have died from AIDS. The quilt at that time covered 14 acres. The lives of five people who suffered and fought this disease are celebrated.
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activism, addiction, AIDS, commander, friendship, grief, hemophilia, homosexual, Navy, quilt, survivor, victim
