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Release Date: 1993

Cast: Lawrence Monoson, Christian Clemenson, Matthew Modine, Steve Martin, Richard Masur, Patrick Bauchau, Alan Alda, Stephen Spinella, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, David Marshall Grant ...MORE

Cast: Lawrence Monoson, Christian Clemenson, Matthew Modine, Steve Martin, Richard Masur, Patrick Bauchau, Alan Alda, Stephen Spinella, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, David Marshall Grant, B.D. Wong, Jeffrey Nordling, Richard Jenkins, David Dukes, Ian McKellen, Glenne Headly, David Clennon, Charles Martin Smith, Tchéky Karyo, Bud Cort, Lily Tomlin, Nathalie Baye, Alex Courtney, Donal Logue, Ronald Guttman, Ken Jenkins, Saul Rubinek, Dakin Matthews, Swoosie Kurtz ...LESS

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And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. The film premiered at the Montreal Film Festival before being broadcast by HBO on September 11, 1993. It later was released theatrically in the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist... MORE

And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. The film premiered at the Montreal Film Festival before being broadcast by HBO on September 11, 1993. It later was released theatrically in the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist Don Francis arrives in a village on the banks of the Ebola River in Zaire and discovers many of the residents and the doctor working with them have died from a mysterious illness later identified as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It is his first exposure to such an epidemic, and the images of the dead he helps cremate will haunt him when he later becomes involved with HIV and AIDS research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1981, Francis becomes aware of a growing number of deaths from unexplained sources among gay men in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, and is prompted to LESS