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MUBI
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7.6
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How to Survive a Plague (2012)
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
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Kanopy
83
71
7.9
/2397/
76
/102/
68
/45/
3.9
/1923/
100
/45/
86
/92/
94
/11/

We Were Here (2011)
A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.
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Kanopy
82
46
8.1
/1221/
71
/25/
69
/18/
4.2
/1648/
100
/8/
93
/12/

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (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.
poster
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36
7.7
/810/
77
/55/
75
/19/
3.6
/437/
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/29/
88
/2/
68
/11/

Fire in the Blood (2013)
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop 'the crime of the century' and save millions of lives in the process.
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6.6
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/11/
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60
/26/
65
/7/

Sex Positive (2009)
Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic demanding a solution to the problem before the outside world would take heed. Now destitute and alone, Mr. Berkowitz tells his story to a world who never wanted to listen.
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The Roku Channel
78
35
7.9
/361/
71
/18/
57
/12/
3.8
/537/
100
/21/
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/7/
69
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5B (2018)
At the heart of the HIV/AIDS crisis and widespread hysteria, a single number and letter designated a ward on the fifth floor of San Francisco General Hospital, the first in the country designed specifically to deal with AIDS patients. The unit's nurses' emphasis on humanity and consideration of holistic well-being was a small miracle amidst a devastating crisis and the ensuing panic about risk and infection.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
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7.5
/416/
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/27/
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/9/
3.7
/660/
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/13/
100
/3/

Killing Patient Zero (2019)
After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.
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Kanopy
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27
7.7
/176/
76
/6/
69
/9/
4.0
/1185/
78
/9/
73
/3/

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012)
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government negligence.
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60
14
6.6
/267/
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/9/
51
/8/
3.4
/232/
Popcorn
44
/117/

The Gift (2003)
Controversial documentary about gay men purposely contracting the AIDS virus.
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9.2
/6/
10
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The AIDS Movie (1986)
An AIDS education film for youth featuring three people with AIDS who share what it's like to live with the disease and how to protect against it.
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5.4
/9/
10
/1/

AIDS: What You Haven't Been Told (1989)
Unmask the myths, cover-ups and political manipulations concerning the world's most deadly killer virus! THIS shocking and visually appealing documentary, filmed in twelve major cities in the United States and Europe, unmasks the myths, cover-ups and political manipulations concerning the world's most deadly killer.
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58
/2/

La ciencia del pánico (2011)
A documentary about the HIV/AIDS controversy, denying the connection between the former and the latter.
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?
6.3
/53/
43
/3/
34
/5/

Positive (1990)
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
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Amazon Prime Video
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7.8
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A Social Cure (2018)
Can you and your friends slow the spread of a devastating global disease? (and promote other positive behaviors?) A Social Cure tells the stories of five unique individuals as their lives intersect with the HIV epidemic in South Africa. These stories together reveal humanity's newfound ability to affect change through our own personal relationships.
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7.6
/41/
70
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AIDS: Doctors and Nurses Tell Their Stories (2017)
For the first time, doctors and nurses who cared for Britain's first AIDS patients in the 1980s tell of the extraordinary situation they found themselves in and the rules they had to break to help patients forgotten by the state.
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7.8
/10/
10
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Bright Eyes (1984)
One of the earliest documentaries to deal with AIDS.
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5.7
/26/
30
/2/
60
/1/

Estou com AIDS (1986)
A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
74
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7.7
/338/
74
/15/
63
/9/
3.7
/448/
83
/7/

Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)
From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potentially risky behaviors. Co-founder of both organization Gay Men's Health Crisis and the direct action protest group ACT UP, Kramer was vilified by some who saw his criticism to be an expression of self-hatred, while lionized by others who credit him with waking up the gay community — and, eventually, the government and medical establishment — to the devastation of the disease.
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10
/1/

Doctors with Heart (1993)
Tahani Rached’s powerful documentary enters the doors of an AIDS clinic in Montreal. We meet a group of dedicated doctors struggling to provide health care to their patients. This 1994 film explores legal and ethical problems surrounding HIV/AIDS and the struggle against fear, rumours and prejudice. It is still relevant today.
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27
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4.4
/172/
10
/1/

The Other Side of AIDS (2004)
The Other Side of AIDS takes us behind the hype and headlines and into the heart of a brewing controversy over the cause and treatment of AIDS. Through candid interviews with doctors and scientists representing both sides of the issue and HIV positives on and off the drugs, the film opens minds and much-needed dialogue. Informative without being instructive, it raises fundamental questions about what we think we know. Its surprising and sometimes shocking revelations inspire us to take a closer look at HIV and AIDS and the systems that support our current views.
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AIDS: What Everyone Needs to Know (1985)
The film provides information about the course and symptoms of AIDS, the effect of AIDS viruses on the immune system, the routes of infection, the main risks of infection and the protective measures against them.
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Let the Record Show (2013)
What started as a singular conversation with Patrick O'Connell, Founder of Visual AIDS, about bringing the red ribbon to the world, grew into a symphony of New York City artist voices sharing their passion, compassion, pain, and strength in the face of AIDS. For the first time they collectively impart their journey into why we act and why we love. This is the story of how they responded.
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Confused Sex: Real Life Stories in the Era of AIDS (2010)
The movie is divided in 4 sections. The 1st one is about the 70s, when Italian society discovered the "sex, drugs and rock'n roll" culture. Many witnesses are interviewed about their own experiences as drug addicts or sex consumers: mainly the incoming "gay liberation" politics are focused. The 2nd part is about the 80s: HIV comes to Italy from the USA and it becomes a tragic disease. Through the stories told by the witnesses we can get the atmosphere of fear and panic around the first victims, and also the first attempts of the medical researchers to stop the infection. The 3rd part is about the 90s. Now the witnesses speak about the new "life style" of the Hiv-positive people: they don't die anymore, but can live thanks to new medicines, and so the problems are wider and more complex. The 4th part is about the first decade of the new century, when new items come out in this field: the most important items are the non-awareness among younger people and the spreading of "barebacking".


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