What is the duration of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt?

The duration of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is 80 mins.

What is the original language of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt?

The original language of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is English.

Who directed Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt?

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt was directed by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, James Watkins, David Mandell.

Which studio made Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt?

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt was produced by Sandollar Productions.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt 1989

Q: Does Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt have end credit scenes?

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt does not have end credit scenes.

History

Documentary

Runtime

80 mins

Language

English

On the eve of the 1987 Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, families and friends of those lost to AIDS craft panels for a massive memorial quilt. Director Robert Epstein draws from the countless names to tell the intimate stories of six individuals, while news footage and interviews situate the epidemic within the broader social and governmental response.

Sandollar Productions

Studio

Jeffrey Friedman

Director

Rob Epstein

Director

James Watkins

Director

David Mandell

Director

Does Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt have end credit scenes?

No!

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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Eddie Murphy

Self (archive footage)

Dustin Hoffman

Narrator (voice)

Larry Kramer

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

Self - Introduction Speaker

Tom Brokaw

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Rock Hudson

Self (archive footage)

John Palmer

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Bryant Gumbel

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Vito Russo

Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

Robert Hager

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Cleve Jones

Self

Kevin McCullough

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

James Curran

Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)

Gary Bauer

Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)

Robert Ray

Self (archive footage)

Gregg Baker

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Jerry Falwell

Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)

Andrea Mitchell

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Sallie Perryman

Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

Sara Lewinstein

Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

Suzi Mandell

Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

Tracy Torrey

Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

Robert Bazell

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Kevin Boyle

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Edward Brandt

Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)

Bobbi Campbell

Self (archive footage)

David C. Campbell

Self (archive footage)

Marcus A. Conant

Self (archive footage)

Bolton Eckert

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Virginia Fedosky

Self (archive footage)

Emil Guillermo

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Tim Haas

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Charles Howard

Self (archive footage)

C. Everett Koop

Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)

Roger Gail Lyon

Self (archive footage)

David Mandell Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Mark Ostfield

Self (archive footage)

Marcia Pally

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Robert Perryman

Self (archive footage)

Hampton Pearson

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

John Politano

Self

Josie Politano

Self

Randy Ray

Self (archive footage)

Ricky Ray

Self (archive footage)

Neil Schram

Self - Los Angeles AIDS Task Force (archive footage)

Heidi Schulman

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Jeffrey Sevcik

Self (archive footage)

Tom Waddell

Self (archive footage)

Gary Walsh

Self (archive footage)

Linda Yee

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

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