Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
- california
- assassination
- politics
- san francisco
- california
- 1970s
- mayor
- civil rights
- politician
- biography
- double murder
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Harvey Milk
Self (archive footage)
Harvey Fierstein
Narrator (voice)
Anne Kronenberg
Self
Tory Hartmann
Self
- Tom Ammiano — Self
- Jim Elliot — Self
- Henry Der — Self
- Jeannine Yeomans — Self
- Bill Kraus — Self
- Sally M. Gearhart — Self
- John Briggs — Self (archive footage)
- Jerry Brown — Self (archive footage)
- Jimmy Carter — Self (archive footage)
- Dianne Feinstein — Self (archive footage)
- David Fowler — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Rob Epstein
- Written
- Rob Epstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 125 ratings
- Studio
- UCLA School of Film and Television, Black Sand Productions, pacific arts
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
