The story of AIDS is both an important history and an important lesson for humanity, It is important to understand how this disease developed and spread, and how that was assisted by prejudice and apathy. Many religious conservatives quickly adopted a prejudiced and judgmental perspective and claimed this disease was God's judgement against those they considered had sinned (according to their own personal religious beliefs). Many even celebrated it. For Christians, this judgment and scorn of those afflicted was both tragic and antithetical to the actual teachings of their savior Jesus Christ. Because of that, it was very inspirational to see Bono from U2 touch the heart of conservative Jesse Helms to understand the natural science behind the disease and the compassion that humanity must have for those afflicted. To not have such compaction is as evil as the disease itself.
I also found it really fascinating to watch this after/before watching the docudrama "And the Band Played On". I think it is worth seeing both of these together.
On a technical matter, IMDb shows this as a single 4 hour episode. But the original Frontline broadcast was in 2 parts on back-to-back nights, 2 hours each. The numbering of Frontline episodes on IMDb compared to PBS is confusing and do not align at all. Maybe this is PBS's fault but every site (PBS, IMDb, TVDB, TMDB, etc) seems to have a different method for counting Frontline seasons and episodes.
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