The Times of Harvey Milk

Oct 7, 1984

1h 30m

★ 7.2

He was powerful, charismatic, compassionate and gay. After eleven months in office he was assassinated.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

UCLA School of Film and Television

Black Sand Productions

pacific arts

The Times of Harvey Milk Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Milk

Narrator (voice)

Harvey Fierstein

Self

Anne Kronenberg

Self

Tory Hartmann

Self

Tom Ammiano

Self

Jim Elliot

Self

Henry Der

Self

Jeannine Yeomans

Self

Bill Kraus

Self

Sally M. Gearhart

Self (archive footage)

John Briggs

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Brown

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