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The AIDS Show

History · Documentary

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Music & Dance · Art Documentaries · Documentary

Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At age 27, Tanny was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

Lesbian · Documentary · LGBTQ

Led by Peter Adair, the Mariposa Film Group made the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers. Their 1977 film is a collage of interviews, funny and heartbreaking.