HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE - Teaser Trailer

A powerful story of men and women who raged against disease and apathy to save their own lives, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE provides a never-before-seen look at the battles waged by HIV/AIDS activist groups like ACT UP and TAG that stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. A classic tale of empowerment and activism that has since inspired movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall Street. Their story stands as a powerful inspiration to future generations, a road map, and a call to arms. This is how you change the world.




HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE will be released in theaters on September 21st, 2012.




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"REMARKABLE"
- Frank Bruni, New York Times

"An essential, heroic story is told in this documentary composed of archival video footage taken by the subjects themselves. It's the tale of a disease—AIDS—and the activists who managed to turn the perception of it away from Reaganite fear and shame into something much closer to compassion."
-Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE




A film by David France | 109 Minutes




Not Yet Rated | A Sundance Selects Release




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, with no scientific training, 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 in the process.




The powerful story of their fight is a classic tale of empowerment and activism that has since inspired movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall Street. Their story stands as a powerful inspiration to future generations, a road map, and a call to arms. This is how you change the world.

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[tuggem]

Oh my God, I still f**king hate my former Senator Jesse Helms. I have lived for 27 years with HIV in NORTH CAROLINA. I outlived that prick. I OUTLIVED THAT PRICK JESSE HELMS. I once thought I would dance naked in the street when he finally shriveled up and died, but I only had pity for him when the day actually came. The opening clip in this trailer reminds me how much I despise him.

[chercherchercher]

no no sweety. he was a worthless sack of dog shit. i hope he suffered and was in pain screaming in a dark room for weeks. being fed fucking dog shit and donkey cum. i hope he was raped nightly by the fattest black guys with the hugest dicks, with no fucking lube. i hope they took the shitty blood from his worthless asshole and made him drink it. i hope they cut off the tops of his eyelids before they did it to make sure that he couldn't blink to miss a second.  i wanna go shit on his grave

[3manuel101]

the amendment rights are not protected because they are peacefully protesting and the government is killing them

[dogpatchia]

you got that right...I would just move the date back to 1933...And people like Glenn Beck were leading the charge ...

[James Carrier]

far too many people died far too young....the scourge of those who were diagnosed early lies deeply in my memories and to remember those friends lost and the way in which they died still brings tears to my eyes today

[MrMusicFlood]

Gave me chills

[toltschin]

Excellent! 

[Jay McFarland]

The Republican Party is similar to the Nazi Party in 1941