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41) Yesterday
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Zulu
Description
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
A difficult look at a country whose children are being orphaned at an alarming rate due to AIDS, their lack of education, and how they try to survive living in one of the poorest countries in the world. Includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and more.
44) One last wish
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Three stories about young people who have terminal illnesses.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
HIV is a virus, which attacks the immune system. Most HIV positive people eventually develop AIDS, a collection of diseases and opportunistic infections. Currently there is no cure, but combination drug therapies help combat HIV and have shown to delay progression to AIDS.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
HIV/AIDS has ravaged entire populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet educational efforts to prevent the acceleration of the epidemic continue to clash with traditional cultural attitudes that view protected sex as unmanly. Protection provides a fascinating look at the origins of these attitudes, and examines how they are being kept alive by a set of hyper masculine myths that extol risk taking as an emblem of strength, virility, and potency. An eye-opening...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Through the comments of a professional who works with people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, as well as a woman who is HIV-positive, this video focuses on the place of spirituality in HIV/AIDS. How a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS impacts the whole person is described, including the spiritual dimension of the person. How HIV/AIDS impacts the spiritual need for meaning and purpose, the spiritual need for forgiveness, and the spiritual need for love and relatedness...
50) Sacrament
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gay photographer of endangered species recalls a childhood meeting with two agents of Death. They told him they were seeking the extinction of species. Suddenly, he has an intuitive flash. Aids! Is that their work too, the extinction of his kind? He embarks on a quest for an answer.
51) The cure
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS, and his friend Erik build a raft and set sail down the Mississippi River, determined to find a New Orleans doctor they believe has a cure. Their journey gives Dexter a chance to experience life as it should be lived and will change both boys' lives forever.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Afloat: From the intimate vantage point of a senior community swimming pool, water and time suspend both body and memory. This film travels underwater and above water to create a gentle meditation on growing old, staying young, and living life.
The angelmakers: Tells the forgotten story of a large group of Hungarian women who killed their husbands with arsenic in 1929.
High Plains winter: This short film captures the lunar quality of the western...
53) The normal heart
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice...
58) The married man
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American works out in a Paris Gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger. Wary and on the rebound from a bruising affair, he thinks nothing will come of this. Yet slowly, life takes on the colour of romance.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted...
60) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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