The Times of Harvey Milk
He was powerful, charismatic, compassionate and gay. After eleven months in office he was assassinated.
Synopsis
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) is Rob Epstein's documentary, and you can watch it online on iFILM. It traces the life of Harvey Milk, among the first openly gay people ever voted into public office in the United States.
San Francisco, the late 1970s. Milk runs a camera shop on Castro Street, loses a few campaigns, then wins a seat on the city's Board of Supervisors and becomes a voice for people who had gone unheard for decades. On November 27, 1978, it ends: a former colleague, Dan White, shoots Milk and Mayor George Moscone inside City Hall. Epstein builds the film from news reels, archival footage and interviews with the people who actually knew Milk, with narration read by Harvey Fierstein.
The documentary took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and an Emmy — not as a dry biography but as a living portrait of a movement Milk sparked in under a year in office. Quiet, humane and still painfully relevant, it's about how a single voice can move a whole city. Stream The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) online on iFILM.
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