Summary: This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORSummary: Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHISummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGSummary: A year in the life of a group of friends who love, fight, and laugh together as they face important social issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, drug abuse, and homelessness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RENSummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIASummary: Katherine has lost her son, Cal has lost his lover, and together they must seek a reconciliation, an understanding of life with and now without their Andre who has lost his life to AIDS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDKushner, Tony.
Contents: pt. 1. Millennium approaches -- pt. 2. Perestroika.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Theatre Communications Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 KUSSummary: Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PhiladelphiaSummary: After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006