The Times of Harvey Milk

1984, 88 minutes

Director: Robert Epstein

Free films continue at the Parkway with the landmark documentary about inspirational GLBTQ activist and politician Harvey Milk, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature !

 

ABOUT THE FILM:
(Robert Epstein, United States, 1984, 88 minutes)
A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.

 

 

“[T]his 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 it a better, and certainly a more interesting, place to live.”—Roger Ebert, in his February 22, 1985 review