5B PG-13
When people were consumed by fear, a few heroes showed the world the power of human touch
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 56 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2020
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Wolfe Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Paul Haggis & Dan Krauss |
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Rating: 7/10 --
Directors Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss deserve commendations of their own for ensuring this tale of unprecedented kindness in the face of unspeakable tragedy doesn't fade away into history.
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The Lamplight Review
[A] quietly searing documentary...
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SF Weekly
"5B" proves as inspiring as it does unsettling with its heroic stories of the hospital staffers and allies who fought ignorance, fear, bigotry and political wrangling to protect the rights and integrity of AIDS patients.
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Los Angeles Times
The filmmakers build suspense with colorful footage of the city in the 1970s, when being gay was (newly) not only publicly possible and permissible but even celebrated.
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San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Rating: 5/5 --
You won't need a medical education to appreciate this film but it never patronise its audience, explaining hospital protocols in a matter of fact way as it explores the issues.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The frequent sight of someone in his or her 60s or 70s juxtaposed with that of the same person 35 years ago is time-machine startling - and time-machine effective.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"5B" is ultimately about survival, and the struggle at its center is undeniably a heartbreaking one.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
5B is a documentary film that tells the story of the nurses, caregivers, and patients designated to the first AIDS ward unit in the United States. In the early years of AIDS epidemic, San Francisco General Hospital had a specialized ward on the fifth floor, becoming the first hospital in the country assigned to tend to AIDS patients. Directed by Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss.
Keywords:
Illness
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History
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Social Issues
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Documentary
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Doctors
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Homosexuality
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AIDS (Disease)
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Gays
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Lesbians
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