The Times Of Harvey Milk

The Times Of Harvey Milk won the Academy Award for best Documentary in 1984 and recounts the incredible story of Harvey Milk. He was the first openly Gay politician in San Francisco when he was elected the the Board of Supervisors in 1977. Milk had become a Gay rights activist and looked to use his position in City Hall to fight anti gay legislation such as Proposition 6 which sought to ban Gays and Lesbians from working in Californian schools. However after only 11 months in office Milk and then Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White another politician who had just recently resigned from the Board of Supervisors but was seeking to be reinstated. In the documentary we learn the how Harvey Milk beat the odds to be elected, the events leading up to the assassination and the aftermath focusing on the unlikely assassin Dan White, his trial and reaction to the verdict.

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Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 1984 Duration: 1 Hour 28 Minutes.