And the Band Played On (1993)

Directors

Roger Spottiswoode

Cast

Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye, Phil Collins, Anjelica Huston, Richard Gere, Steve Martin

The story

In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist Don Francis arrives in a village on the banks of the Ebola River in Zaire as part of an international team investigating a mysterious illness that has killed many of the residents and the doctor treating them, later identified as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It is his first exposure to such an epidemic, and the images of the dead he helps cremate will haunt him when he later becomes involved with HIV/AIDS research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1981, Francis becomes aware of a growing number of deaths among gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco caused…

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