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How to Survive a Plague
2012
Synopsis
In a desperate effort to save their own lives, an unlikely group of mostly HIV-positive young men and women took on Washington and the medical establishment. Archival footage from the 80s and 90s reveals the heated meetings, the painful failures, and the joyful breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
Editorial
With great immediacy in its first-hand accounts and an incisive use of archival footage, this Academy Award®-nominated documentary dives deep into one of the most tortured yet tide-turning moments in recent American history. A remarkable portrait on the potentiality of significant social change.
