When AIDS Was Funny (2015)
- Directed by
- Scott Calonico
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- United States of America
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short documentary shows how the AIDS crisis was treated as a joke in news and comedy programs during the 1980s. It uses archival television clips to show the era's tone-deaf and offensive responses to the epidemic.
archivaldarkly funnyrevealingshortmatter-of-factuncomfortablehistorical
What happens
When AIDS Was Funny is a 2015 British short documentary film by Scott Calonico. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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