How to Survive a Plague(2012)

🎬109 min
📅2012-09-20
🎭Documentary, History
6.9/10

Overview

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

Production

Public Square Films, Ninety Thousand Words, Ted Snowdon Foundation, Impact Partners, Little Punk, Ford Foundation

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Cast

Peter Staley
as Self
Larry Kramer
as Self
Iris Long
as Self
Bob Rafsky
as Self
Mark Harrington
as Self
Anthony Fauci
as Self