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Lex

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9. One of the finest documentaries I've ever seen "The Times of Harvey Milk."

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 10:06 PM

Nov 2013

If anyone here hasn't yet seen it, you should. Really. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary the year it premiered. Recently it was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the US Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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Assassinated 35 years ago today November 27, 1978 [View all] Playinghardball Nov 2013 OP

Kick! n/t Tx4obama Nov 2013 #1

And don't forget Mayor Moscone. KamaAina Nov 2013 #2

White was a pariah upon his all-too-soon release duffyduff Nov 2013 #3

The method that he chose to kill himself is redolent with symbolism KamaAina Nov 2013 #5

He didn't kill Moscone and Milk, and he didn't kill himself! Archae Nov 2013 #11

Imagine how it would be if we had a Senator Milk now truebluegreen Nov 2013 #10

Oh hell yeah KamaAina Nov 2013 #13

Oh crap! passiveporcupine Nov 2013 #15

Chuck Prophet's tribute to Harvey Milk and George Moscone: White Nights, Big City DreamGypsy Nov 2013 #4

thank you for the reminder. when I first heard the news that awful day, I immediately thought that niyad Nov 2013 #6

I thought the movie with Sean Penn was very good. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2013 #7

Oh damn.. Cha Nov 2013 #8

One of the finest documentaries I've ever seen "The Times of Harvey Milk." Lex Nov 2013 #9

Oh man... that long ago... calimary Nov 2013 #12

How could I be this ignorant? passiveporcupine Nov 2013 #14

Everyones birthday has some horrible event associated with it. Sirveri Nov 2013 #21

kick Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #16

DU rec... SidDithers Nov 2013 #17

The last few decades of California politics could've been so different if Moscone and Milk nomorenomore08 Nov 2013 #18

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #19

Harvey Milk tavalon Nov 2013 #20