Leadership, Truth, and Justice
A heartfelt look at the successful, historic career and tragic assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
In 1978, Harvey Milk was sworn in as the first non-incumbent openly gay man in the United States to win an election for public office, serving as city supervisor in San Francisco and a fearless advocate for advancing gay rights. This documentary details Milk’s remarkable life and shocking death at the hands of a fellow city supervisor. [90 min; documentary; English]
"This is an enormously absorbing film, for the light it sheds on a decade in the life of a great American city and on the lives of Milk and Moscone, who made [San Francisco] a better, and certainly a more interesting, place to live." — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Thought-provoking look at a charismatic politician's life." — S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media
"A finely structured and deeply moving portrait of not just a man, but, as the title suggests, the times in which he lived and how he affected, and was affected by, them." — James Hendrick, Q Network Film Desk
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