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
- 5 wins total
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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I was actually looking for something else today when I came across this. I remember seeing this several years ago & still recall it clearly. I've never been a big bobby McFerrin fan, but the theme music that he came up with is deeply human and touching. It accents the somber tone of the presentation extremely well. I remember sitting there struck silent by the magnitude of human suffering expressed in the form of those quilts. If more filmmakers had the kind of heart those two have, the world would be a better place for all of us. Gay and Straight alike.
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- TriviaThe documentary was the first project of Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin's Sandollar Productions not to feature Parton (having previously produced her A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986) and Dolly (1987)). Subsequent projects from their company included Steve Martin's Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), and Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) (2020) trilogy, Shining Through (1992), Sabrina (1995), I.Q. (1994), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).
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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 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)
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Written and Performed by Bobby McFerrin
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By what name was Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) officially released in Canada in English?
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