And the Band Played On (1993)
The exhaustive groundbreaking book by journalist Randy Shilts gets the all-star treatment in this HBO film, and the result is every bit as maddening and heartbreaking as the source material. And the Band Played On remains a towering work of nonfiction, but the storyline of Gaëten Dugas (“Patient Zero”) has since been discredited as exploitative, shame-mongering and factually inaccurate.
