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.

Cast:

Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice) 

Sara Lewinstein
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell) 

David Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.) 

Suzi Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.) 

Sallie Perryman
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman) 

Vito Russo
Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)