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1. 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: 4,358 | Gross: $0.13M
2. We Were Here (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
Directors: David Weissman, Bill Weber | Stars: Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark, Eileen Glutzer
Votes: 2,280
3. 5B (2018)
PG-13 | 94 min | Documentary
Documentary about the staff and patients of San Francisco General Hospital's AIDS ward during the early years of the epidemic.
Directors: Paul Haggis, Dan Krauss | Stars: Alison Moed Paolercio, Cliff Morrison, David Denmark, Mary Magee
Votes: 313
4. 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: 1,086
5. Fire in the Blood (2013)
87 min | Documentary, History
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the... See full summary »
Director: Dylan Mohan Gray | Stars: Zackie Achmat, Peter Mugyenyi, Bill Clinton, William Hurt
Votes: 798 | Gross: $0.03M
6. The Gift (II) (2003)
62 min | Documentary
Controversial documentary about gay men purposely contracting the AIDS virus.
Director: Louise Hogarth | Star: Doug Hitzel
Votes: 251
7. 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
8. Sex Positive (2008)
R | 75 min | Documentary
Explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M sex worker turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has has never been aptly credited.
Director: Daryl Wein | Stars: Don Adler, Richard Berkowitz, Susan Brown, Demetre Daskalakis
Votes: 213 | Gross: $0.01M
9. 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
10. Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The passion and anger of a modern warrior during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Director: Jean Carlomusto | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Alan Bates, Anthony Fauci, Jonathan Hadary
Votes: 315
11. 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
12. 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
13. Estou com AIDS (1986)
75 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals about the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. There's also interviews with famous Brazilian ... See full summary »
Director: David Cardoso | Stars: David Cardoso, Samir Achoa, Sandra Alegre, Aldo Angelica
Votes: 20
14. 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
15. The Other Side of AIDS (2004)
87 min | Documentary
A controversial documentary look at the arguments suggesting that HIV is NOT the cause of AIDS.
Director: Robin Scovill | Stars: Margaret Heckler, Robert Gallo, Christine Maggiore, Frank Sontag
Votes: 169
16. A Social Cure (2018)
96 min | Documentary
Can you and your friends slow the spread of a devastating global disease? (and promote other positive behaviors?) A Social Cure tells the stories of five unique individuals as their lives ... See full summary »
Director: Meissa Hampton | Stars: Dazon Dixon Diallo, Catherine Sozi, Nokubonga Yawa, Scott Burnett
Votes: 8
17. AIDS in Africa (1990)
52 min | Documentary
The AIDS crisis in Africa is the subject of this 2001 NewsHour series. Correspondents report on the situation in three countries: Malawi, Botswana and Senegal. Also included is a discussion... See full summary »
Director: Roger Pyke | Star: Kate Lynch
18. La ciencia del pánico (2011)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary about the HIV/AIDS controversy, denying the connection between the former and the latter.
Directors: Patrizia Monzani, Isabel Otaduy | Star: Arantxa Martinez
19. Ending Aids: The Search for a Vaccine (2005)
Documentary
For the past 20 years, scientists around the world have been confronting one of the greatest medical challenges in human history: the search for an AIDS vaccine. Like detectives on the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schwarz | Star: Richard Gere
Votes: 26
20. Il sesso confuso. Racconti di mondi nell'era Aids (2010)
93 min | Documentary
Witnesses of the changing in human and sex relationships after Aids: the decade of sex & drugs (70s); Aids as disease and death (80s); new treatments and therapy for new hopes (90s); and the diffusion of barebacking (2000).
Directors: Andrea Adriatico, Giulio Maria Corbelli | Stars: Andrea Adriatico, Fernando Aiuti, Adriana Ammassari, Stefano Benni
21. The Rise of the Killer Virus (2014)
46 min | Documentary, History
The truth behind the origin of the AIDS pandemic.
Director: Carl Gierstorfer | Stars: Michael Worobey, Dirk Teuwen, Peter Piot, Beatrice H. Hahn
Votes: 13
22. Médecins de coeur (1993)
110 min | Documentary
Ce documentaire par Rached est l'un des films les plus ambitieux et accomplis sur la crise du VIH/SIDA au Canada. Portraits de docteurs (majoritairement homosexuels) exténués par la ... See full summary »
Director: Tahani Rached | Star: Réjean Thomas
23. Plagues (1988 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at epidemic diseases historically and epidemiologically, and putting the AIDS outbreak in context with past epidemics.
Director: Alan Goldberg | Star: Baruch S. Blumberg
24. A Coming of AIDS (2002 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary
With over 10 million people living with AIDS and 30 million deaths, the epidemic only shows signs of growing. Through interviews with leading doctors, HIV and AIDS researchers, care givers ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Barton
25. The AIDS Movie (1986)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Three people with Aids talk about how to live with the disease and explain how to protect against it.
Director: Ginny Durrin
26. AIDS: The Global Explosion (1988 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Paul Palo | Stars: Alex Paen, Sadik Hamid Alwash, Roger Ballinger, Ian D. Campbell
Votes: 38
28. AIDS: What You Haven't Been Told (1989 Video)
Documentary
Stars: Michael Gebott, Harold Jaffe, Steven E. Larson
Votes: 9
29. The Subject Is AIDS (1986 Video)
18 min | Short, Documentary
Documentary and educational video about AIDS education, specially made for young people.
Director: Franklin Getchel | Stars: Rae Dawn Chong, Debbie Rochon, Jason Scott Sadofsky
30. AIDS: The Facts of Life (1988 Video)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Scott J.T. Frank | Stars: Elizabeth Hubbard, Iman, Susan Sarandon, James Taylor
Votes: 24
31. Vivre séropositif (2001 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Burundi is one of two countries (with Mali) in East and West Africa where the HIV infection rate has remained stagnant or has risen in the past decade. The documentary focuses on Burundian patients living with AIDS.
Director: Joseph Bitamba
32. 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
33.
Q.E.D. (1982–1999)
Episode:
Your Biological Guide to AIDS
(1987)
Documentary
Director: Stuart McDonald | Stars: Graeme Garden, Alan Maryon-Davis, Gillian Rice
34.
Panorama (1953– )
Episode:
AIDS - The Fight for Control
(1987)
Documentary, News
This "Panorama" special deals about the AIDS crisis and the struggle of patients, doctors, helpers and specialists who were fighting against the disease and working about health education, ... See full summary »
Stars: Rainer Albercht, Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, Freidrich Deinhardt, Douglas Elwood
35.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Killer in the Village
(1983)
58 min | Documentary
Horizon's special investigation in this program is focused on the AIDS epidemic in its early years while the disease was making its first victims in UK. BBC's report the problem and ... See full summary »
Stars: Bobbi Campbell, James Curran, Sandy Ford, Alvin Friedman-Kien
Votes: 17
36.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
(1986)
Documentary
This BBC special covers the then new information changes about the AIDS epidemic which was considered the plague of its period during its alarming death toll in the 1980's. The documentary ... See full summary »
Stars: Alexandra Beckett, Sam Broder, Judith Cohen, Robert Gallo
Votes: 12
37.
Ochéntame... otra vez (2014– )
Episode:
SIDA: La epidemia del siglo
(2015)
Documentary
Director: Jordi Barrachina | Stars: Carmen Alvear, Lluís Bassat, Ángeles Caso, Bonaventura Clotet
38.
The Eighties (2016)
Episode:
The Fight Against AIDS
(2016)
Documentary, History
Stars: Virginia Apuzzo, Robert Bazell, Paul Boneberg, Tom Brokaw
Votes: 127