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And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts , and is noteworthy for featuring both a vast historical scope, as well as an ...
A 1987 book by Randy Shilts that chronicles the discovery and spread of HIV and AIDS, with a focus on government indifference and political infighting in the US. The book covers the impact and the politics involved in battling the disease on gay, medical, and political communities.
- Randy Shilts, Matthew Modine
- 1987
And the Band Played On: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye. The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
- (11K)
- Drama, History
- Roger Spottiswoode
- 1993-09-11
In 1981, epidemiologist Don Francis (Matthew Modine) learns of an increased rate of death among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to begin investigating the outbreak ...
- (12)
- Roger Spottiswoode
- PG-13
- Matthew Modine
Based on the best-selling book by Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On is a real-life drama about the tragic, time-consuming battles among government agencies, gay groups and scientists that impeded the discovery of, and research on, the AIDS virus.
Matthew Modine stars in this medical thriller as a young doctor tracking a deadly epidemic halfway around the world and across two continents--and whose work...
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- 141 min
- 34K
- ReRuners
