The Littlest Victims (1989)

Directed by

Peter Levin

Genre

drama, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor discovers that children can get AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. He fights to have his findings accepted while dealing with the personal and professional costs.

solemnfactualearnestbiographicalmedicalsadunsettling

What happens

The Littlest Victims is a 1989 CBS-produced biographical drama about Dr. James Oleske. The TV film was written by Kenneth Cavender and J.J. Towne based on a story by Towne and directed by Peter Levin. Dr. Oleske was the first U.S. physician to diagnose AIDS in children during the epidemic's early years when it was widely thought to be spread only though homosexual sex. It starred Tim Matheson as Oleske and was first broadcast on April 23, 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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