Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Collection

Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt (1989)

This powerful, Oscar-winning documentary brings the AIDS epidemic into sharp personal focus by telling the stories of five people memorialized on the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt. Moving, inspiring study features music by Bobby McFerrin and is narrated by Dustin Hoffman. 79 min. C/Rtg: NR

Where Are We? Our Trip Through America (1992)

Academy Award-winning gay documentarians Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ("Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") caught on film their 18-day odyssey across the American South and Southwest. Travelling by bus, van and train, the duo talked with local residents about their lives, hopes and fears and met with both antagonism and acceptance. 75 min. C/Rtg: NR

Paragraph 175 (2000)

WThe title refers to a 19th-century German anti-homosexuality statute that was rarely enforced until Hitler came to power and used the law to wage a campaign of imprisonment and extermination against gays. Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ("Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") examine this aspect of the Third Reich’s legacy of brutality through rare newsreel footage and interviews with several of the handful of survivors. Rupert Everett narrates. 81 min. BW&C/Rtg: NR

Standard and Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; deleted scenes; more.