AIDS Docs/Films
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1. Over Our Dead Bodies (1991)
74 min | Documentary
This film documents the origins of the AIDS activist movement in the US and the UK and the gay community's growing anger and frustration with the totally in adequate response of the US ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Marshall | Stars: Kellan Farshea, Simon Watney
2. Parting Glances (1986)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Sherwood | Stars: John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan
Votes: 3,235 | Gross: $0.54M
3. Quiet Heroes (2018)
TV-14 | 68 min | Documentary
A doctor in Utah fights to save the lives of people in a maligned population, a population that nobody cares to save.
Directors: Jenny Mackenzie, Jared Ruga, Amanda Stoddard | Stars: Kristen Ries, Maggie Snyder, Beverly Stoddard, Kim Smith
Votes: 93
4. After 82: The Untold Story of the AIDS Crisis in the UK (2019)
99 min | Documentary
AFTER 82 brings to the screen the untold personal stories of the AIDS crisis in the UK. Narrated by Dominic West, this incredible documentary looks back to the very early days of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Steve Keeble, Ben Lord | Stars: Shaun Dellenty, Norman Fowler, Peter Tatchell, Dominic West
Votes: 30
5. Bright Eyes (1984)
85 min | Documentary
One of the earliest documentaries to deal with AIDS.
Director: Tony Harrild | Stars: Michael Callen, Stuart Marshall, Linda Semple, Tony Whitehead
6. The AIDS Show (1986)
58 min | Documentary, History
Artists Involved with Death and Survival, The Aids Show, theatre dealing with the impact of AIDS on friends and family; musical, dramatic and comedic scenes from the show and interviews with the creators.
Directors: Peter Adair, Rob Epstein | Stars: Douglas Holsclaw, Leland Moss, Adele Prandini
Votes: 41
7. It's My Party (1996)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Nick "Eric Roberts", is nearing the end of a 3-year battle with AIDS and makes arrangements to die. He hosts a party to say goodbye to friends and family. His ex-partner, Brandon "Gregory Harrison", attends and things get complicated.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Margaret Cho, Bruce Davison
Votes: 3,218 | Gross: $0.62M
8. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman
Votes: 1,081
9. NY84 (2016)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Music, Romance
NY84 follows the adventures of three young artists in the downtown art scene in the early 1980's. We gain an intimate glimpse into the creative and emotional life of Kate, Anton, and Keith.... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Morin | Stars: Sam Quartin, Chris Schellenger, Davy J. Marr, Ray Field
Votes: 85
10. Remembering the Man (2015)
83 min | Documentary, History, Romance
At a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne in the seventies, Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love. Their passionate, tempestuous, operatic romance lasted for sixteen ... See full summary »
Directors: Nickolas Bird, Eleanor Sharpe | Stars: George Banders, Reece Manning, Richard Bligh, Denis Moore
Votes: 165
11. The Last One (II) (2014)
TV-14 | 80 min | Documentary, History, News
In the eighties and nineties, as AIDS ravaged the United States gay community, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born out of a public battle for treatment and understanding. The Last One is a ... See full summary »
Director: Nadine C. Licostie
Votes: 33
12. Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (1996)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
This documentary focuses on AIDS activist, novelist and film writer and National Book Award winner Paul Monette's life, from his childhood in Massachusetts up to his life in Hollywood and ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Bramer | Stars: Judith Light, Robert Desiderio, Tom Hulce, Jonathan Fried
Votes: 95
13. Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South (2017)
99 min | Documentary
Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South" is an independent documentary examining the work and influence of ACT UP Shreveport in the conservative Deep South.
Directors: David Hylan, Raydra Hall | Stars: Lance Bass, Robert Darrow, Deborah Allen, Wm. Marc Spurlock
Votes: 8
14. Killing Patient Zero (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History
Gaetan Dugas was openly gay. In early 1980s he contracted what was termed "gay cancer". He provided blood samples and 72 names of his former sex partners. Dugas was demonized for his promiscuity and wrongfully identified as patient zero.
Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Richard Berkowitz, Richard Bisson, Anita Bryant, Marcus A. Conant
Votes: 325
15. Every Act of Life (2018)
93 min | Documentary, Biography
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for LGBT rights, addiction and recovery, finding ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Kaufman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Lynn Ahrens, Jon Robin Baitz, Christine Baranski
Votes: 164
16. One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room (1994)
79 min | Documentary
A group of AIDS patients share their stories in the doctor's office.
Directors: Juan Botas, Lucas Platt | Stars: Jonathan Demme, Juan Botas, Bernard Morisset, Daniel Chapman
Votes: 56
17. Sex in an Epidemic (2010)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
SEX IN AN EPIDEMIC is a pioneering documentary that explores the personal, political and structural challenges that have continually hampered the best efforts of HIV educators and community... See full summary »
Director: Jean Carlomusto
18. The Battle of Amfar (2013)
TV-14 | 41 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did. Dr. Mathilde Krim and Elizabeth Taylor joined forces to create amfAR, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Richard Berkowitz, Timothy Ray Brown, Michael Callen, Kenneth Cole
Votes: 79
19. Memories of a Penitent Heart (2016)
TV-14 | 69 min | Documentary, Family
Twenty-five years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora's box of unresolved family drama.
Director: Cecilia Aldarondo
Votes: 96
20. Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016)
84 min | Documentary
At 21, Saar was expelled from his religious kibbutz and fled to the UK. There he created a new family with the London Gay Men's Chorus and now, after 19 years, Saar reaches out to his old family in the hope of a reconciliation.
Directors: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir | Stars: Saar Maoz, Alon, London Gay Men's Chorus Band, Elimelekh
Votes: 334
21. How to Survive a Plague (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History, News
The 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.
Director: David France | Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long, Bob Rafsky
Votes: 4,356 | Gross: $0.13M
22. United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012 Video)
93 min | Documentary
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Hubbard | Stars: David Barr, Ken Bing, Gregg Bordowitz, Jim Eigo
Votes: 156
23. 30 Years from Here (2011 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary
The Emmy Award-nominated 30 Years from Here examines the AIDS pandemic over the past 30 years. Activists and medical experts that share stories include Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer, ... See full summary »
Director: Josh Rosenzweig | Stars: Regan Hoffman, John Knoebel, Frank Spinelli, David Drake
Votes: 23
24.
ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode:
Positive: A Journey Into AIDS
(1995)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Documentary following two actors from General Hospital as they research and talk to people living with HIV and AIDS.
Directors: Eamon Harrington, John Watkin | Stars: Kimberly McCullough, Michael Sutton, Francesca James, Steven Miles
Votes: 22
25. Die Aids-Trilogie: Positiv - Die Antwort schwuler Männer in New York auf AIDS (1990)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Phil Zwickler, Larry Kramer, Michael Callen, Peter Staley
Votes: 45
26. No Sad Songs (1985)
63 min | Documentary
Jim Black, a 37-year-old Canadian talks about the AIDS that is killing him. He talks about his life and his friends and how his brother's family has rejected him. Catherine Hunt is a ... See full summary »
Director: Nik Sheehan | Stars: Martha Cronen, David MacLean, David Roche, David Sereda
Votes: 22
27. Let the Record Show (2013)
89 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Artists who shook the foundation of American culture come together and speak passionately about their private, and highly political journeys. A look at the collective spirit of activism in the face of AIDS.
Director: Demetrea Dewald | Stars: Penny Arcade, Cee Scott Brown, Avram Finklestein, Karen Finley
28. Alive and Kicking (1996)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Director: Nancy Meckler | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Antony Sher, Dorothy Tutin, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 874 | Gross: $0.20M
30. Thanks to Hank (2019)
Unrated | 81 min | Documentary
This film explores the life of the late AIDS activist Hank Wilson.
Director: Bob Ostertag | Stars: Blackberri, Lea DeLaria, Gerry Kirby, Bob Ostertag
Votes: 16
31. Video Remains (2005 Video)
55 min | Documentary
In 1993, Alex shoots an interview with her best friend Jim as he tries to recount his life as he is dying. In 2004, she re-works this haunted video, letting bleed in a host of present day ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Juhasz | Stars: Michael Anthony, James Lamb, Alisa Lebow, Juanita Mohammed
32. The Luminous Life of Tom Wilson (2020)
19 min | Documentary, Short
A chronicling of the life of artist and fashion model Tom Wilson, who died from complications of the AIDS virus at the height of his career in 1995.
Director: Warren Lewis Allen
33. Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Mantello | Stars: Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, Randy Becker
Votes: 3,699 | Gross: $2.87M
34. It's a Sin (2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The lives of a group of friends living in 1980s London are irreparably changed by the AIDS crisis.
Stars: Olly Alexander, Nathaniel Curtis, Shaun Dooley, Omari Douglas
Votes: 36,881
35. AIDS: Doctors and Nurses tell their Stories (2017)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
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.
Director: Alejandro Medina
Votes: 40
36. Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012)
174 min | Drama
A story of love and death. Rasmus, 19, escapes to Stockholm and finds love in the religious Benjamin just as the AIDS epidemic hits the city's gay community.
Stars: Adam Lundgren, Adam Pålsson, Björn Kjellman, Simon J. Berger
Votes: 5,050
37. A Time of Change: Confronting AIDS (1986)
68 min | Documentary
Seminal documentary featuring interviews conducted with early AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital's wards 67 and 5B in 1983. Friends, family, health care workers, and caregivers... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Decker, Al LaValley | Stars: Joseph Brewer, Jim Crumbly, Jaak Hamilton, Beau Matthews
Votes: 10
38. After Goodbye: An AIDS Story (1993 TV Special)
60 min | Documentary
"After Goodbye: An AIDS Story" looks at the impact of AIDS on the Turtle Creek Chorale, which lost more than 90 of its members to AIDS, and the grief recovery it experienced through music. ... See full summary »
Director: Ginny Martin | Star: Ruby Dee
39. Living with AIDS (1987)
30 min | Documentary, Short
As one of the first films about AIDS to be nationally televised on PBS, Living With AIDS tells the compelling story of Todd Coleman, a 22 year old gay man with AIDS, and those who cared for... See full summary »
Director: Tina Di Feliciantonio | Stars: Todd Coleman, Bob Runyon, Paul Karney, Kitsy Schon
Votes: 25
40. The Line of Beauty (2006)
177 min | Drama, Romance
A young man becomes attached to a family that's not his own, and casts himself into the life of plentiful riches and gay love affairs for which he seems destined.
Stars: Dan Stevens, Tim McInnerny, Hayley Atwell, Alice Krige
Votes: 1,909
41. Video Album 5: The Thursday People (1987 Video)
59 min
Director: George Kuchar | Stars: Lance Acord, Dave Alvin, Claire Bain, Antonio Beecroft
42. Sehnsucht nach Sodom (1989 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Drama
Kurt Raab is emaciated as he talks to his friend, the actor Hans Hirschmüller, open-hearty and often ironically about his feeling of impotence, his homosexuality and the complete disappearance of his sexual appetite after the diagnosis.
Directors: Hanno Baethe, Hans Hirschmüller, Kurt Raab | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Hans Hirschmüller, Conni Moré, Anke Oehme
Votes: 33
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