this is when I lived in SF......................the 80's!! It was SURREAL!! friends and lovers dying, I was losing my mind!!! I dodged the bullet, but miss all my friends that are all gone, terribly!!!!
I don't think I've cried harder watching any other documentary. Beyond tragic, this movie scrapes off a glimpse of the absurdity and speed in which AIDS devastated so many. Powerful.
If you watch any documentary watch this and Bad Blood, I watched these both while home sick. I don't think I cried this much or that hard in quite sometime. I don't care who you are, what you believe if these cant move you to utter deep emotion....well it's history it's our history and you need to see it.
Saw this tonight at the Minneapolis Out Film Festival. Felt like someone came up to me and hit me in the gut with a sledgehammer. Fantastic documentary - connects me to a lost generation.
I saw this last night. Amazing. I was a kid in the 80s, so it brought back the paranoia and ignorance that everyone dealt with early on. Remember when people thought that mosquitoes might be able to carry it? Anyway, these people are brave and inspiring, and I'm glad I was able to get a glimpse of their stories. Thank you.
i got this movie "And The Band Played On" and needs to write a reaction paper about .. after watching it , it keep me having this question "what happen to the people out there , in there journey through this?" and i saw this documentary .. this is the answer im looking for , im gay , and im negative , but the pain that they went through i could almost feel them by just watching this. i want to say THANK YOU FOR THE FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING THEYVE DONE and THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS DOCUMENTARY
This doc is one of the best doc I've ever seen in my life - definitely in the top 5. It's so essential yet underrated. More people need to watch this amazing film.
This may be the best documentary I've ever seen. I was a nurse in New York City in the 80's when the AIDS epidemic was in full swing, so this hit home with me in a big way. It is heartbreaking and uplifting, all at the same time. Bravo!
David Weissman It brought back heartbreaking memories and the insecurity we felt as health care providers. It was such a scary time. I'm so glad we've come so far, despite the political setbacks.
Just finished watching this film tonight and was overwhelmed by the subject matter. Devastated and uplifted at the same time. It brought back so many memories and feelings from that truly unbelievable time in our history. I had a premonition that somewhere in the film I would see an old boyfriend from Denver from the early 80's who had moved to and then died in San Francisco. And there in one of the montages of obituaries was Daniel Sterling Weaver. Oh, what a beautiful boy he was. Oh, how he loved SF. Belated congratulations to David Weissman and Bill Weber, and all involved for a truly stunning documentary. Bravo.
Watched this on TV yesterday. So moving. It was brutal but also hopeful. I especially loved the story about the man who would go to the flower shop on his bike, then got sick and started coming in a wheelchair, but with treatment went back to using his bike.
The AIDS epidemic, hit equally as hard, on the East Coast as well. I recall one summer, that I went to over 23 funerals. It became numbing, as you watched your close circle of friends, fade away. Virtually none of my friends from that era, are still alive.
Watched this on Independent Lens yesterday! Thank you for giving this moment in history a voice! I always knew the history, but hearing it from the various perspectives was very eye opening and emotional. Great film!
watching this brought many memories back to me to a time the people i worked with were being brave, being very human and knowing them gave me a deep respect for humanity - i saw both good and bad in human nature - I carry that awareness even today . This documentary proves that even today this horrific period in our history will not be censored by omission.
I saw this the other week on BBC - amazing, maybe the best doc i've seen in a long time. I'm using it as inspiration and research for a short doc i'm working on. I can't recommend this film enough! Great stuff
I watched this last night and I can't properly articulate the impact it had on me. I grew up in Philly and in the early 80's as a little girl I knew about AIDS- I thought (the benefits, the red ribbons, amfar, the vigils, the images from the news of what seemed like living ghosts that were covered in lesions and how they reminded me of holocaust images, everything that I think a lot of us only knew etc, etc) but, I didn't know THIS- the stories and faces and fear and community .. I felt like by watching this, I was learning about AIDS for the very first time. Seeing those obituaries. Hearing people say that all of their friends weren't alive anymore and how fast in the beginning it just swept through. I can't imagine what that would be like and yet it was happening just 3,000 miles away from me. These stories.. I just can't stop thinking about them. I wish everyone would watch this. It's a time in history that I did not know and I will be forever changed by it. I am so sorry if this is a terrible ramble, as I said in the beginning I truly can't articulate how much this film meant to me. Thank you.
+bipolar bee Interesting. Lived in Philly all my life - As a 32 year old in 1982 (The Big Boom Year) - can say that - from my experience - for about 2 years just about everyone I knew lived in denial. For that brief period - most Philly natives told themselves "this is just happening in NYC or SF" or "avoid the promiscuous or men from those cities and you will be fine." Then, like a nightmare, the denial was pushed aside. My guy and I saw that everyone around us were dying or ill. Hard film to watch - but so important.
You can stream it from the film's website (in the description above), and if you are in the US it is also available on iTunes, netflix, and all the other usual places.
...films he'd eve seen and it has since totally changed his perspective on sexuality. Thankyou for producing such a beautiful, thought provoking movie that I will never forget, just as the victims of this terrible disease will never be forgotten.
I lived in San Francisco in 1985. Death and dying were everywhere. They were doing four to six funeral services per week for AIDS victims at the Mission Dolores Basilica alone. I decided to leave the city because I couldn't take it anymore, couldn't see myself making any kind of life there at that time. Part of me regrets that to this day.
@iwannabejackieoh it will be broadcast next June on the PBS series Independent Lens. It will be available on cable pay per view/on demand beginning next week, Dec 9.
I have not stopped thinking about this movie since I saw it. During the first few scenes, I thought it would resemble any number of AIDS documentaries I have seen. It did not. It's different and absolutely worth watching.
This documentary was so good but also so sad. I bawled my eyes out when they were interviewing people who had lost their partners... or most of their friends to AIDS.
I saw this film first on my own, then with my friend and her rather ignorant & homophobic boyfriend. After watching this, he was crying his eyes out. He said it was one of the most touching if
I loved the film, been watching it a few times, thanks to everyone who made it. Does anyone know the name of the artist who is one of the principal narrators in it? I really want to see his work too now. thanks ;)
Just finished watching this amazing documentary on viooz.co. It was both brilliant, and sad, inspiring and moving. There were parts that brought me to tears, so many deaths of people in the prime of their lives. The government should have moved faster, both with money and drug treatments and trials. The people interviewed are amazing, and each ones gives their own extremely unique and personal perspectives. The way the community came together should be an example to our society today.
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this is when I lived in SF......................the 80's!! It was SURREAL!!
friends and lovers dying, I was losing my mind!!! I dodged the bullet, but miss all my friends that are all gone, terribly!!!!
most have been a living hell :(
I don't think I've cried harder watching any other documentary. Beyond tragic, this movie scrapes off a glimpse of the absurdity and speed in which AIDS devastated so many. Powerful.
If you watch any documentary watch this and Bad Blood, I watched these both while home sick. I don't think I cried this much or that hard in quite sometime. I don't care who you are, what you believe if these cant move you to utter deep emotion....well it's history it's our history and you need to see it.
Saw this tonight at the Minneapolis Out Film Festival. Felt like someone came up to me and hit me in the gut with a sledgehammer. Fantastic documentary - connects me to a lost generation.
I saw this last night. Amazing. I was a kid in the 80s, so it brought back the paranoia and ignorance that everyone dealt with early on. Remember when people thought that mosquitoes might be able to carry it? Anyway, these people are brave and inspiring, and I'm glad I was able to get a glimpse of their stories. Thank you.
i got this movie "And The Band Played On" and needs to write a reaction paper about .. after watching it , it keep me having this question "what happen to the people out there , in there journey through this?" and i saw this documentary .. this is the answer im looking for , im gay , and im negative , but the pain that they went through i could almost feel them by just watching this. i want to say THANK YOU FOR THE FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING THEYVE DONE and THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS DOCUMENTARY
This doc is one of the best doc I've ever seen in my life - definitely in the top 5. It's so essential yet underrated. More people need to watch this amazing film.
+joomjim4 Thanks JoomJim!
This may be the best documentary I've ever seen. I was a nurse in New York City in the 80's when the AIDS epidemic was in full swing, so this hit home with me in a big way. It is heartbreaking and uplifting, all at the same time. Bravo!
+SummerGalLongIsland - Thanks SummerGal! And thanks for the work you did in those years, I can imagine that the film hit home in a deep way.
David Weissman It brought back heartbreaking memories and the insecurity we felt as health care providers. It was such a scary time. I'm so glad we've come so far, despite the political setbacks.
Just finished watching this film tonight and was overwhelmed by the subject matter. Devastated and uplifted at the same time. It brought back so many memories and feelings from that truly unbelievable time in our history. I had a premonition that somewhere in the film I would see an old boyfriend from Denver from the early 80's who had moved to and then died in San Francisco. And there in one of the montages of obituaries was Daniel Sterling Weaver. Oh, what a beautiful boy he was. Oh, how he loved SF. Belated congratulations to David Weissman and Bill Weber, and all involved for a truly stunning documentary. Bravo.
I saw this film two days ago at Sundance, and I cannot stop thinking about it. I was moved beyond measure. See this film. It's incredible.
I was infected in 1985. This brings back so many memories . . . both good and bad.
Saw this extraordinary documentary yesterday in Montreal. Thanks for sharing these stories!
Watched this on TV yesterday. So moving. It was brutal but also hopeful. I especially loved the story about the man who would go to the flower shop on his bike, then got sick and started coming in a wheelchair, but with treatment went back to using his bike.
Fantastic doc, saw it last night at the Insideout film festival in Toronto - amazing film!
I saw this in the castro theater. I sat next to people who lived through this, who lost their friends and lovers. It was an incredible experience
Just saw this last Tuesday on PBS, great Docu- Thanks to all involved!
The AIDS epidemic, hit equally as hard, on the East Coast as well. I recall one summer, that I went to over 23 funerals. It became numbing, as you watched your close circle of friends, fade away. Virtually none of my friends from that era, are still alive.
Watched this on Independent Lens yesterday! Thank you for giving this moment in history a voice! I always knew the history, but hearing it from the various perspectives was very eye opening and emotional. Great film!
watching this brought many memories back to me to a time the people i worked with were being brave, being very human and knowing them gave me a deep respect for humanity - i saw both good and bad in human nature - I carry that awareness even today . This documentary proves that even today this horrific period in our history will not be censored by omission.
Recently watched this on ABC 2 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A great film...and a story that must be told !
I watched this on BBC a fee months ago, the best documentary I've ever seen, very powerful and very tragic. Amazing.
I saw this the other week on BBC - amazing, maybe the best doc i've seen in a long time. I'm using it as inspiration and research for a short doc i'm working on. I can't recommend this film enough! Great stuff
I watched the whole documentary and kept crying, remembering all those we lost to this terrible virus!
some of the most emotional moments i've ever seen on screen in this. amazing
I watched this last night and I can't properly articulate the impact it had on me. I grew up in Philly and in the early 80's as a little girl I knew about AIDS- I thought (the benefits, the red ribbons, amfar, the vigils, the images from the news of what seemed like living ghosts that were covered in lesions and how they reminded me of holocaust images, everything that I think a lot of us only knew etc, etc) but, I didn't know THIS- the stories and faces and fear and community .. I felt like by watching this, I was learning about AIDS for the very first time. Seeing those obituaries. Hearing people say that all of their friends weren't alive anymore and how fast in the beginning it just swept through. I can't imagine what that would be like and yet it was happening just 3,000 miles away from me. These stories.. I just can't stop thinking about them. I wish everyone would watch this. It's a time in history that I did not know and I will be forever changed by it. I am so sorry if this is a terrible ramble, as I said in the beginning I truly can't articulate how much this film meant to me. Thank you.
+bipolar bee Interesting. Lived in Philly all my life - As a 32 year old in 1982 (The Big Boom Year) - can say that - from my experience - for about 2 years just about everyone I knew lived in denial. For that brief period - most Philly natives told themselves "this is just happening in NYC or SF" or "avoid the promiscuous or men from those cities and you will be fine." Then, like a nightmare, the denial was pushed aside. My guy and I saw that everyone around us were dying or ill. Hard film to watch - but so important.
It's playing today in Tampa, Florida!!!
Thanks! The response from Australia has been wonderful, beautiful.
@anarchofag - DVD won't be available until May 2012 in the US, but cable VOD begins December 9.
I am looking forward to watching this documentary .
You can stream it from the film's website (in the description above), and if you are in the US it is also available on iTunes, netflix, and all the other usual places.
i lived it, i've seen the documentary, it's extraordinary.
Thanks, Trynn. Didn't know Ind Les was still screening it!
seeing it tonight in toronto!
I want to watch this so bad now
...films he'd eve seen and it has since totally changed his perspective on sexuality. Thankyou for producing such a beautiful, thought provoking movie that I will never forget, just as the victims of this terrible disease will never be forgotten.
I lived in San Francisco in 1985. Death and dying were everywhere. They were doing four to six funeral services per week for AIDS victims at the Mission Dolores Basilica alone. I decided to leave the city because I couldn't take it anymore, couldn't see myself making any kind of life there at that time. Part of me regrets that to this day.
@iwannabejackieoh it will be broadcast next June on the PBS series Independent Lens. It will be available on cable pay per view/on demand beginning next week, Dec 9.
Just left from seeing it!! Some moving stuff
i can't wait to see this touching and insightful documentary
I have not stopped thinking about this movie since I saw it. During the first few scenes, I thought it would resemble any number of AIDS documentaries I have seen. It did not. It's different and absolutely worth watching.
It is Daniel Goldstein, one of the five interviewees in the film.
Getting for christmas :D
This documentary was so good but also so sad. I bawled my eyes out when they were interviewing people who had lost their partners... or most of their friends to AIDS.
@gdancer22 great! thanks for posting.
I saw this film first on my own, then with my friend and her rather ignorant & homophobic boyfriend. After watching this, he was crying his eyes out. He said it was one of the most touching if
I loved the film, been watching it a few times, thanks to everyone who made it. Does anyone know the name of the artist who is one of the principal narrators in it? I really want to see his work too now. thanks ;)
@SexyJonny76 - thanks! where did you watch it on DVD? Are you in the UK?
Is it available for dvd purchase??
Just finished watching this amazing documentary on viooz.co. It was both brilliant, and sad, inspiring and moving. There were parts that brought me to tears, so many deaths of people in the prime of their lives. The government should have moved faster, both with money and drug treatments and trials. The people interviewed are amazing, and each ones gives their own extremely unique and personal perspectives. The way the community came together should be an example to our society today.
where can I watch this documentry??
Very interesting
thanks to netflix, this is historical and educational
i know most of the people in this video, been there at that time some have died, i was there i can say that....also just recently...
@MultiChannelZero His name is Daniel Goldstein, google Daniel Goldstein Studio
Let us know your thoughts when you've had a chance to watch.
Balled my fucking eyes out
I think you sent me a message but I can't reply because you've got contact block on your youtube account.
"Women fighting the epidemic"