5B (2018)

Directed by

Dan Krauss, Paul Haggis

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary focuses on the nurses and caregivers who opened the first dedicated AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s. It tells how their approach changed patient care during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

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What happens

5B is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Dan Krauss and Paul Haggis about the efforts of a group of nurses and caregivers who opened the first AIDS ward in the world at San Francisco General Hospital and changed the way patients were cared for in the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Verizon Media, with the help of Johnson & Johnson and Academy Award winner Julianne Moore, announced during its Newfront event in New York City on April 30, 2019, that it had acquired and planned to release the documentary. The film first premiered at the 2018 San Francisco Doc Stories film festival and was later screened at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019, and at LA Pride on June 7, 2019. It was released nationwide June 14, 2019 in select theaters, presented by RYOT, a Verizon Media company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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