Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- 1989
- 1h 19m
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A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 4 wins total
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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)
- (as Marcus A. Conant M.D.)
James Curran
- Self - Center for Disease Control
- (archive footage)
- (as James Curran M.D.)
Bolton Eckert
- Self - News Reporter
- (archive footage)
- (as Barton Eckert)
Jerry Falwell
- Self - Moral Majority Leader
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe documentary was the first project of Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin's Sandollar Productions not to feature Parton (having previously produced her film "A Smoky Mountain Christmas" in 1986 and her ABC variety series "Dolly" in 1987-88). Subsequent projects from their company included the Steve Martin "Father of the Bride" films, "Shinning Through," "Sabrina," "IQ," and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer."
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Narrator: It took Rock Hudson's death to capture America's attention. By that time, AIDS had already killed 15 thousand of other Americans. Rock Hudson is the most famous name in the giant quilt, a memorial to ten thousand names of men, women and children who came along very different roads to the same fate.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)
- SoundtracksCommon Threads
Written and Performed by Bobby McFerrin
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How To Make An American Quilt
Every life has a story. Here are a few of the stories of people who died from AIDS, told by their survivors.
More than three quarter of a million Americans have died from AIDS since we began to notice it, about forty years ago. Worldwide, the figure seems to be a bit more than 40 million. Do a little math, and we as a nation look lucky. Human lives are not measured statistically, and people do not die by nations, but individually. Try to speak of the enormity of something, saying eighty million people have died from AIDS, or 6.9 million from COVID-19 or what have you and the horror and sadness gets lost in the the crowd. But one by one, with those they leave behind to assess the values of those lives. "My son died"; "My lover died"; "My friend Jim died": these are the words that make me weep. That's why this movie is so effective.
More than three quarter of a million Americans have died from AIDS since we began to notice it, about forty years ago. Worldwide, the figure seems to be a bit more than 40 million. Do a little math, and we as a nation look lucky. Human lives are not measured statistically, and people do not die by nations, but individually. Try to speak of the enormity of something, saying eighty million people have died from AIDS, or 6.9 million from COVID-19 or what have you and the horror and sadness gets lost in the the crowd. But one by one, with those they leave behind to assess the values of those lives. "My son died"; "My lover died"; "My friend Jim died": these are the words that make me weep. That's why this movie is so effective.
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