BBC Documentaries

San Francisco's Year Zero: We Were Here

Directed by David Weissman, Bill Weber
TV-PG
2012 • E25    Feb 6, 2012    60m
2011 marks 30 years since AIDS descended. In 1981, the flourishing gay community in San Franscisco was hit with an unimaginable disaster. Through the eyes of those whose lives changed in unimaginable ways, this film tells how their beloved city was changed from a hotbed of sexual freedom and social experimentation into the epicentre of a terrible sexually transmitted 'gay plague'. From their different vantage points as caregivers, activists, researchers, friends and lovers of the afflicted and as people with AIDS themselves, it shares stories which are intensely personal. Speaking to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, this is the story of the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion and determination.

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Cast of BBC Documentaries - 2012 • E25 - San Francisco's Year Zero: We Were Here

  • David WeissmanDirector
  • Bill WeberDirector

 

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