The Times of Harvey Milk

  • Documentary
10/7/1984
90

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

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.

Director:
Rob Epstein
Writer:
Rob Epstein
  • california
  • assassination
  • politics
  • san francisco, california
  • 1970s
  • mayor
  • civil rights
  • politician
  • biography
  • double murder
  • political assassination
  • political campaign
  • envy
  • lgbt
  • charismatic leader
  • lgbt activist
  • neighborhood
  • stigma
  • representation
  • small business
  • politician death
  • gay history
  • gay theme
  • lgbt activism
  • lgbt rights
  • american history

Videos

Cast

  • Harvey Milk
    Self (archive footage)
  • Harvey Fierstein
    Narrator (voice)
  • 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
  • John Briggs
    Self (archive footage)
  • Jerry Brown
    Self (archive footage)
  • Jimmy Carter
    Self (archive footage)
  • Dianne Feinstein
    Self (archive footage)
  • David Fowler
    Self (archive footage)
  • Joseph Freitas
    Self (archive footage)

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