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5B is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Dan Krauss and Paul Haggis about the efforts of a group of nurses and caregivers who opened the first AIDS ward in the world at San Francisco General Hospital and changed the way patients were cared for [1] in the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
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.
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Life Support is a 2007 American drama television film directed by Nelson George and starring Queen Latifah.It is loosely based on the real-life story of Ana Wallace, an HIV-positive woman.
Something to Live for is television in its Social Worker Mode, which is not a form I sneer at. TV's been downright heroic in the plague years and may be all the conscience we've got. And Ali's presentable in prime time for the same reason she's presentable in junior high schools: She is young, gifted, white, female, cute, equally innocent of ...
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 ...
[9] The movie makes use of scenes with humour and joy demonstrating that there can still be life despite the presumed death from AIDS. For Michael D. Klemm, "most of the love scenes between Jon and Luke are as tender as they are steamy (and they were the most explicit male love scenes I'd ever seen at that point) and their love story is often ...