Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
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.
Top Cast

Dustin Hoffman
as Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Sara Lewinstein
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
David Mandell
as Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
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