Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
01/12/1989
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
as Narrator (voice)
Sara Lewinstein
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
David Mandell
as Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Suzi Mandell
as Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Sallie Perryman
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Vito Russo
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Tracy Torrey
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Gregg Baker
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Gary Bauer
as Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Robert Bazell
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Kevin Boyle
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Edward Brandt
as Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Bobbi Campbell
as Self (archive footage)
David C. Campbell
as Self (archive footage)
Marcus A. Conant
as Self (archive footage)
James Curran
as Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)
Bolton Eckert
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Jerry Falwell
as Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
Virginia Fedosky
as Self (archive footage)
Emil Guillermo
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Bryant Gumbel
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Tim Haas
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Robert Hager
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Charles Howard
as Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson
as Self (archive footage)
Cleve Jones
as Self
C. Everett Koop
as Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)
Larry Kramer
as Self (archive footage)
Roger Gail Lyon
as Self (archive footage)
David Mandell Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Kevin McCullough
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Andrea Mitchell
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Eddie Murphy
as Self (archive footage)
Mark Ostfield
as Self (archive footage)
Marcia Pally
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
John Palmer
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Hampton Pearson
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Robert Perryman
as Self (archive footage)
John Politano
as Self
Josie Politano
as Self
Randy Ray
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Ray
as Self (archive footage)
Ricky Ray
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Neil Schram
as Self - Los Angeles AIDS Task Force (archive footage)
Heidi Schulman
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
Jeffrey Sevcik
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
as Self - Introduction Speaker
Tom Waddell
as Self (archive footage)
Gary Walsh
as Self (archive footage)
James Watkins
as Self - Presidential AIDS Commission (archive footage)
Linda Yee
as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
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