Movie Description Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices of his day. The film chronicles the successes of his life, the tragedy of his assassination, and the uproar which greeted Dan White's infamous "Twinkie Defense."
| Credits | | Producer: | Richard Schmiechen |
Notes Funding provided by: Independent Documentary Fund Corporation for Public Broadcasting National Endowment for the Arts Ford Foundation Chicago Resource Center New York State Council on the Arts
Editorial Reviews "...[A] warm, well-made documentary....Urgency, passion and, finally, indignation..." Maslin
"[T]hi 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..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (02/22/1985)
Awards 1984Academy AwardsBest Documentary Feature
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