Watch Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt (1989) Free Online

Release Date: 1989   Duration: 81 min

Cast: Vito Russo, Tracy Torrey, Dustin Hoffman

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Culture & Society, Biography, Illnesses & Disabilities, Documentary

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with footage of...  MORE

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with footage of various politicians, health professionals and other people with AIDS. Each section of the film is punctuated with statistics detailing the number of Americans diagnosed with and dead of AIDS through the early years of the epidemic. The film ends with the first display of the complete Quilt at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the 1987 Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The film, made for HBO, was based in part on the book The Quilt: Stories From The NAMES Project by Cindy Ruskin, Matt Herron and Deborah Zemke. The film relates the lives of six people memorialized with panels: ⁕Dr. Tom Waddell, founder of the Gay Games; his story is told by his friend and the mother of his child, Sara Lewinstein. ⁕David Mandell Jr., a young hemophiliac; his storytellers are his parents, David Mandell and Suzi Mandell. LESS