Times of Harvey Milk, The

Synopsis

Set in San Francisco in the 1970s, tells of the rise to power of Harvey Milk who became one of the city’s most colourful and influential elected officials as well as one of the decades’s most prominent leaders of the lesbian and gay rights movement. Milk was assassinated in his office at City Hall by Dan White, ex-supervisor and former policeman. Follows White’s resignation, the assassination, the trial and the protests against the lenient sentence passed on White.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 87 min. Videocassette. VHS. col 87 min.

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of production

1984

Availability

Hire

Uses

Courses on elections, local politics, minority politics, US domestic affairs; also useful for courses on politics/film in Hollywood.*

Subjects

History; Sociology

Keywords

California; homosexuality; local government; United States of America

Credits

Director

Richard Schmiechen; Robert Epstein

Distribution Formats

Type

Film

Format

16mm

Distributor

Name

Contemporary Films

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 7950

Address

British Film Institute
21 Stephen Street
London W1P 2LN

Notes

Administrative address: Unit H Spectrum House, Gordon House Road, London NW5 1LP, tel: 020 7482 6204, fax: 020 7284 2809, email: inquiries@contemporaryfilms.com, http://www.comtemporaryfilms.com