Rob Epstein Movies
- 2013
Lovelace
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Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
- 1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
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On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS...
- 2010
Howl
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It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...
- 2004
Then and Now: 1981-2004
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A short film mostly comprised of two sources: research footage from 1988 about the beginnings of the HIV epidemic from the perspective of medical...
- 2011
Vito
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In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He...
- 2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
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The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
- 1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
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Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...
- 1996
The Celluloid Closet
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What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie...
- 2019
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
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With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early...
- 2018
End Game
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Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of...
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.22013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 2000
Paragraph 175
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During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code....
- 1993
Where Are We? Our Trip Through America
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Accomplished documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeff Friedman take a trip across the American South and Southwest, asking people about their hopes and...
- 2013
The Battle of Amfar
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When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did. Dr. Mathilde Krim and Elizabeth Taylor...
- 2023
Musica!
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The Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have become treasured musicologists, first with their loving biography LINDA RONSTADT:...
- 2023
Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music
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This riotous concert film documents New York theater legend Taylor Mac's joyous, challenging, and ostentatiously queer 24-hour musical performance....
- 2018
The Gospel of Eureka
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Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an...
- 1986
The AIDS Show
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A recording of a play about the intangible impacts AIDS has on a community. This is a moving, beautifully photographed combination of theater and...
- 1977
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives4.81977HD
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged...
- 2019
State of Pride
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Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman travel to three diverse communities – Salt...