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And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts , and is noteworthy for featuring both a vast historical scope, as well as an ...
Sep 11, 1993 · And the Band Played On: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye. The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
- (11K)
- Drama, History
- Roger Spottiswoode
- 1993-09-11
The book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perceived as a specifically gay disease.
- Randy Shilts, Matthew Modine
- 1987
In 1981, epidemiologist Don Francis (Matthew Modine) learns of an increased rate of death among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to begin investigating the outbreak ...
- (12)
- Roger Spottiswoode
- PG-13
- Matthew Modine
Don Francis, an immunologist with experience in eradicating smallpox and containing the Ebola virus, joins the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to try and understand just what this disease is. They also have deal with bureaucracy and a government that doesn't seem to care.
Nov 27, 2007 · And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition [Shilts, Randy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
Matthew Modine stars in this medical thriller as a young doctor tracking a deadly epidemic halfway around the world and across two continents--and whose work is thwarted at every turn by fear...
