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A category for films (theatrical and television) in which AIDS or HIV is a significant plot element or which include one or more characters with AIDS or HIV. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Pages in category "HIV/AIDS in American films" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Parting Glances is a 1986 American drama film.The film was one of the first motion pictures to deal frankly and realistically with the subject of AIDS and the impact of the relatively new disease on the gay community in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the pandemic.
The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must ...
[56] This changed the social stigma that HIV/AIDS was a disease that only affected gay men and made it "everyone's problem", and as a result, HIV/AIDS stories were often featured as human-interest pieces. This trend did not last long, because in 1996 the disease was moved from a fatal to a chronic disease, marking the first decline in US HIV ...
It was one of the first feature films about AIDS worldwide. [1] [2] The film also received much attention abroad and is still screened today. A Virus Knows No Morals premiered at the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival and was also shown, for example, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the same year. [3] [4]
Buddies is a 1985 American drama film.It is the first film to deal with the AIDS pandemic, preceding the television film An Early Frost (also released in 1985). Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr., who died of complications from AIDS two years after the film was released, the film follows a New York City gay man in a monogamous relationship becoming a "buddy" or a volunteer friend to another gay ...
The movie, premiering this ... In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, hoping to ...