Movies and TvShows featuring "hivaids-epidemic" theme.
After the tragic suicide of Hannah Baker, Clay Jensen finds a box of cassette tapes on his doorstep. These tapes reveal the thirteen reasons why Hannah chose to end her life, and as Clay listens to each one, he uncovers dark secrets and betrayal that affected her deeply. As he navigates through the tapes, Clay begins to question his relationships and the role he played in Hannah's death.
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
It's a Sin follows the lives of a group of friends living in London during the 1980s as they navigate the challenges of relationships, identity, and the devastating AIDS epidemic. With a mix of comedy and drama, the series explores themes of love, friendship, homophobia, and loss.
Pose takes place in 1980s New York City during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It follows the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly those in the ball culture scene. The show explores themes of found family, acceptance, and self-expression through voguing and dance.
In 1980s USSR, the Elista Children's Hospital is hit by the country's first major HIV outbreak. Over 70 children and several adults are infected, and now everyone, including doctors, patients, and relatives, must strive to maintain their human dignity in the face of this incurable disease.
Inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the 1980s, In Our Blood tells the story of a community grappling with a terrifying new disease. With no cure in sight, they realise they will need something truly radical to survive, trust.
Mysterious Skin tells the story of two young men, Brian and Neil, who were both sexually abused as children. As they navigate their adult lives, the trauma of their pasts continues to haunt them in different ways. Brian becomes obsessed with alien abductions, while Neil becomes a male prostitute. The film explores themes of loss of innocence, prostitution, child abuse, and the lasting impact of traumatic experiences.
I Love You Phillip Morris follows the life of Steven Russell, a former police officer turned con man. After a car accident, he comes out as gay and begins a life of financial fraud to support his extravagant lifestyle. Along the way, he falls in love with another inmate named Phillip Morris and goes to great lengths to be with him, including multiple escapes from prison. The movie explores themes of devotion, memory, and the true nature of love.
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressure to create something great before time runs out. In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick... Boom! in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa Johnson. He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head, and begins telling about the week leading up to his 30th birthday and his desire to become a successful musical theater composer. Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop at Playwrights Horizons of his musical Superbia. He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, who left acting for advertising, his girlfriend Susan, a dancer-turned-teacher, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn. While alone later, Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come too. Jonathan visits Michael at his new Upper East Side apartment, celebrating his financial success and higher quality of life from their old apartment. Ira Weitzman, the Musical Theatre Program Director at Playwrights Horizons, asks Jonathan to write a new song for Superbia, as the story needs it. This troubles him, as his idol, Stephen Sondheim, told him the same at the ASCAP Workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week. Jonathan tries to get his agent, Rosa Stevens, to invite Sondheim to the workshop, but eventually just cold-calls Sondheim and others. He watches PBS's Sunday in the Park with George with Michael and Susan, and afterwards Michael asks him to join an advertising focus group to earn extra money. Susan also pressures him again to move with her, although he feels his career is just starting in New York. The next day he imagines the Diner full with Broadway stars. Carolyn tells him Freddy, who is HIV-positive, has been hospitalized, adding to Jonathan's anxieties as many of his friends have already died in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He walks down Broadway to Playwrights Horizons for the start of rehearsals for Superbia. Susan, frustrated by Jonathan's indecisiveness, breaks up with him. To get money to hire a full band for the workshop, Jonathan attends the advertising focus group. Making a good first impression, he considers a corporate future, but realizes he would hate it and deliberately sabotages it. Michael criticizes him for being in a financially unstable theater career, while Jonathan claims with his impending 30th birthday that he is getting too old to be successful. After finally getting an encouraging call from Rosa about his industry invites, he plans to write the new song the night before the workshop, but his power gets cut off before starting. Heading to a swimming pool to cool off, he pictures sheet music lines on the pool floor and finally comes up with the new song, which he writes out by hand. At the workshop are friends, family, and industry professionals, including Sondheim. Karessa brings down the house with the new song, 'Come to Your Senses,' and Jonathan imagines Susan singing it. He receives praise but no offers to produce Superbia. Rosa tells him he must keep writing, hoping that something will succeed, but he will likely face more rejection. Discouraged, Jonathan runs to Michael begging for a corporate job and perceived stability, but Michael changes his mind after seeing the workshop, encouraging Jonathan to continue in musical theater. When Jonathan accuses him of not understanding what it's like to be running out of time, Michael reveals he is HIV-positive. Finally grasping his career obsession has cost him his relationship with Susan and jeopardized his friendship with Michael, Jonathan wanders through New York before finding himself at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Hopping a fence to a piano, he reflects on his friendship with Michael and the sacrifices he must make, affirming he will continue his musical theater career. He and Michael reconcile. On the morning of Jonathan's 30th birthday Sondheim calls, congratulating him on the workshop and wanting to talk more about Superbia, lifting his spirits. Holding his birthday party at the Moondance Diner, attended by his friends, he is relieved to hear Freddy is to be discharged from the hospital. Susan gifts him blank sheet music paper to help in his career, promising to see 'the next one.' She narrates that the 'next one' was Tick, Tick... Boom!, before he returned to working on a previous project, which became Rent. She reveals he died of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm the night before Rent's premiere Off-Broadway. He never experienced the success he desired, but his work lives on. In 1992, Jonathan performs the final song from Tick, Tick... Boom!, watching his friends and family in the audience, including Susan in the back.
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act is a biographical documentary that delves into the last years of Freddie Mercury's life, focusing on his struggles with personal demons, his battle with AIDS, and his final live performance with Queen at Wembley Stadium. The film explores his impact as an iconic frontman and his enduring legacy in the world of music.
Produced by the activist video collective ACT UP/NY called DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Activist Television), this tape analyzes the collaborative demonstration "Stop the Church" by WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) and ACT UP/NY on December 10, 1990, against Cardinal John O'Connor and the Roman Catholic Church's murderous stand on abortion rights, safer sex, and homosexuality.
House of Boys is a dramatic and emotional coming-of-age story set in 1984 Amsterdam. Frank, a young gay boy from a small town, joins a group of rent boys in the city. Under the guidance of Madame, the boys learn about life, love, and survival. However, their lives take a dark turn when one of them is diagnosed with AIDS, forcing them to confront their own mortality and the challenges of being gay in a time of prejudice and fear.
Real stories, real voices. The AIDS crisis as never told before, by those who survived - and those who did not. Frank, intimate accounts from the heart of a devastating epidemic.
Howard is a documentary film that tells the story of Howard Ashman, the talented lyricist known for his work on Disney's animated films during the 1980s. The film explores his childhood, his rise in the theater industry, his creative partnership with composer Alan Menken, and his battle with AIDS. It also delves into his contributions to iconic films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti subculture, his opening of the Pop Shop, and the social commentary present in his paintings and drawings.
A short film mostly comprised of two sources: research footage from 1988 about the beginnings of the HIV epidemic from the perspective of medical professionals, and an interview with Cleve Jones in 2003 as he looks back upon his activism, and the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 2000s.
1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.
n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.
The story of Iowa's legendary Blazing Saddle the community that built it.
Delve into the life of renowned actor Rock Hudson in this investigative documentary that explores his public persona as a 'ladies' man' and his private life as a gay man. Discover the intersection of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity.