Common Threads—Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Considered to be the largest work of folk art ever created, The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt managed to humanize those who died of AIDS to the American public. The quilt displays in Washington, DC, gradually covered the entire length of the National Mall, becoming a multicolored graveyard of sorts, with panels that were painful, funny, angry and political—much like this film, which won the Academy Award in 1990 for Best Documentary Feature.
