Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Endgame : AIDS in Black America / a Renata Simone Production, Inc. film for WGBH/FRONTLINE, in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) ; written, produced, and directed by Renata Simone.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Every ten minutes, someone in the United States contracts HIV, and nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women, and children. Endgame: AIDS in Black America is a groundbreaking two-hour exploration of one of the country's most urgent, preventable health crises. The film traces the history of the epidemic through the experiences of extraordinary individuals who tell their stories.

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease) -- United States.

HIV infections -- United States.

African Americans -- Diseases.

AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States.

Crack (Drug) -- United States.

AIDS (Disease)

African Americans.

Social history.

HIV infections.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Social problem television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Simone, Renata.

Renata Simone Production, Inc.

PBS Home Video.

PBS Distribution (Firm)

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

National Black Programming Consortium.

Other Title:

AIDS in Black America

Frontline (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast by PBS, July 10, 2012 on Frontline.

Editor, Brian Funck ; cinematography, Daniel Meyers, Jason Longo ; music, John E. Low.

Narrated by Renata Simone.

DVD, widescreen presentation; stereo.

Open captioned.

Contents:

Silence -- "The worst kind of betrayal" -- The spread -- Twin epidemics: HIV and crack -- Magic Johnson breaks the silence -- Political will -- The south: Ground zero -- Living with HIV -- Ending the epidemic.

ISBN:

9781608837601

1608837602

Publisher Number:

FRL63018

Other Number:

806971106

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

968387

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 362.1969792 Endgame