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AIDS activists in the 1980s see little progress toward a cure, so they take to the streets and the labs in a desperate bid to save their lives, in the Oscar-nominated "How to Survive a Plague," on ...
How to Survive a Plague Hindsight allows David France's stirring "How to Survive a Plague" a concise overview's clarity and an epic narrative shape, with a happy ending to boot.
"How to Survive a Plague" is their story - the story of ACT UP and other gay activists, and how, at a time when AIDS was misunderstood and mostly ignored, they stood up, and fought back.
"How to Survive a Plague" is their story -- the story of ACT UP and other gay activists, and how, at a time when AIDS was misunderstood and mostly ignored, they stood up and fought back.
How to Survive a Plague: activists, many HIV-positive, fought pharmaceutical industry to help turn AIDS from death sentence into manageable condition.
For the last in our series of conversations with Oscar-nominated filmmakers in the best documentary feature category, we turn to How to Survive A Plague. The film documents the efforts of HIV/AIDS ...
The heroes of "How to Survive a Plague" stare death in the face. They send crowds into battle. Some don't survive; others, faced with crushing odds, persevere and emerge transformed. When it's ...
If How To Survive a Plague sounds like an urban horror movie, it should. In 1985, a majority of Americans supported the quarantine of AIDS patients—Lyndon LaRouche would even sponsor a ...
“How to Survive a Plague,” David France’s documentary about the anti-AIDS activist movement that sprung up in New York in the 1980s, plays like the hard-edged bookend to last year’s “We ...
'How to Survive a Plague' director David France says there are lessons from AIDS activism that apply to the U.S.'s response to coronavirus.
"How to Survive a Plague" shows how a few ordinary individuals, with nothing in common but a fierce will to live, changed the course of an epidemic and saved millions of lives. Fundamentally, it's a ...