Dan White, George Moscone, Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in United States history, had been serving on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors only 11 months when he, along with Mayor George Moscone, was assas...( read more
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Directed by: Dan White, George Moscone, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein, Robert Epstein
Release Date: January 1, 1984
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January 18, 2009This Oscar-winning documentary is beautifully extraordinary. It's tragic and simply wonderful. Accurately symbolizes the generation that was changed by the political service of the first openly gay elected official. Harvey Milk was, is and always will be one of the most tragic fi...( read more)
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November 2, 2008A quite superb documentary with an acute emotional spectrum unlike any other documentary I've ever seen.
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December 14, 2008An awesome documentary that does an amazing job of sucking you into it's web. It's hard to not find Harvey Milk a very lovable man of the people.
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April 25, 2008A gripping documentary about a rising political star whose life ended in tragedy. I wish it was more balanced with the interviews though. There was a trial and the verdict was depicted as unjust, and the only opinions the film gave were those of Milk's closest friends (who, of co...( read more)
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October 25, 2009i watched this after i saw the Sean Penn performance. all very interesting and a powerful subject... but i kept refering back to the movie. i would of liked to see more interviews with milk as you get less of a sense of the man from this film... though as a doc' maybe harvey milk...( read more)
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July 12, 2009As strong and as informative a documentary as you would expect. It does an excellent job of explaining Harvey Milk's accomplishments, but it doesn't shy on the flawed side of him as well.
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