Malcolm X begins with a title sequence featuring an American flag being consumed by fire intercut with George Holliday’s iconic videotaped footage of the beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King. A voice-over of Denzel Washington as Malcolm X angrily condemns white America: “We don’t see the American dream; we’ve experienced only the American nightmare!” […]
How to Survive a Plague
How to Survive a Plague is 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. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients […]
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart tells the story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Based on Larry Kramer’s play of the same name, it takes an unflinching look at the nation’s sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth […]
Band of Brothers: TV Mini-Series
That modesty and that sentiment seems to be shared by all the survivors of Easy Company, 506th PRI, and many of them can’t hold back the tears as they mumble it. One of the great benefits of this marvelous series was the closeup interviews of the real men portrayed, those wonderful old seamed faces, breaking […]
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