In a desperate effort to save their own lives an improbable group of mostly HIV-positive young men and women broke the mould as radical warriors to take on Washington and the medical establishment. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions the heated meetings the heartbreaking failures and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making. Blisteringly powerful How to Survive a Plague transports... us back to a vital time of unbridled death political indifference and staggering resilience and constructs a commanding archetype for activism today. [show more]
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Oscar-nominated documentary following the plight of activist groups ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to find and provide a treatment for HIV/AIDS during the epidemic of the 1980s. Led by American author Larry Kramer and AIDS sufferer Bob Rafsky, the two groups were involved in pressuring pharmaceutical companies and the government to work harder in creating drugs that would prolong the lives of those battling with the virus. Film-maker David France uses archive footage to document the campaign which resulted in the amount of fatalities caused by the disease being drastically reduced and access being provided to treatments which slow down the virus's progression.
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