Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
As of 2004, a variety of drugs have been developed to resist, if not  cure, AIDS--yetCommon Threads: Stories from the Quiltremains as  emotionally powerful as it was during the height of the crisis, when  people were dying by the thousands every year. With a combination of  photo-montages, interviews with friends and family members, home movies,  and news footage, this 1989 documentary captures the grief of those who have  survived victims of AIDS. It's wrenching to hear the mother of a  hemophiliac boy describing giving him blood transfusions in the middle of  the night, or seeing pictures of a former Olympic athlete with the  daughter he fathered with a lesbian mother, or hearing a Naval officer  describe his relief when he learned that he, like his dead lover, had the  virus--that the stress of waiting was over. A moving combination of art  and politics.--Bret Fetzer