How to Survive a Plague

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time. In the process, they saved their own lives and ended the darkest days of a veritable plague, while virtually emptying AIDS wards in American hospitals. Theirs is a classic tale of activism that has since inspired movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall Street. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is "extraordinary, remarkable, and one of the most important documentaries in years or decades." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.

Director: David France
Producer: David France
Producer: Howard Gertler
Actor: Bill Bahlman
Actor: Derek Link
Actor: Garance Franke-Riuta
Actor: Gregg Bordowitz
Actor: Gregg Gonsalves
Actor: Iris Long
Actor: Mark Harrington
Actor: Peter Staley
Actor: Spencer Cox
Actor: Ed Koch
Actor: Jim Eigo
Actor: Bob Rafsky
Actor: Larry Kramer
Actor: David Barr
Actor: Ann Northrop