When We Rise (2017)
A chronicled re-telling the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969.
Cast: Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Rachel Griffiths, Michael Kenneth Williams, Carrie Preston, Ivory Aquino, Austin P. McKenzie, Jonathan Majors, Emily Skeggs, Douglas Smith, Sam Jaeger, Phillip Joseph Steward, Todd Weeks, Julian Works, Clair Farley, T.R. Knight, Vanessa Ross, Luis Jose Lopez, Phoebe Neidhardt, Fiona Dourif, Nick Eversman, Justin Sams, Gideon Adlon, Alika Autran, Jeremiah Birkett, Joshua Brockington, Kevin Carscallen, Matthew Del Negro, Don Frankel, Alexandra Grey, Jazzmun, Jennifer Kaleta, Edwin Perez, Alex Reznik, Juan Riedinger, Arlina Rodriguez, Molly Shaiken, Charles Socarides, Sam Spear, David Stuart, Kamil Szlachta, Andrew Tait, Johnny Veres
Part VIII
2009–13: Cleve takes the battle against Prop 8 through the federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court. Ken works with Cecilia Chung to get support for his church. Roma and Diane decide to get married if the Supreme Court allows it.
Part VII
2008: As Barack Obama is elected president, California Proposition 8 revokes California's recently-acquired marriage equality, starting Cleve to help organise the National Equality March on Washington, D.C., and advocate for equal rights.
Part VI
1997: Ken relies on Cecilia Chung's support as he struggles with addiction at a VA hospital. Cleve visits the Human Rights Campaign in D.C., where Richard Socarides lobbies for Bill Clinton to do better than "don't ask, don't tell" and DOMA.
Part V
1992: A decade after the advent of the AIDS Crisis, Cleve unveils the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, D.C., and visits ACT UP in New York as they fight for early clinical trials of new drugs.
Night IV
Conclusion. In 2008, Cleve inspires the younger generation to march on Washington, D.C., to demand LGBTQ equality. Roma, meanwhile, fights for healthcare for all in San Francisco; and Ken strives to get the city to help fund a meal program at one of the first LGBTQ inclusive churches in the nation.
Night III
In the early 1990s, Cleve, Ken and Richard each battle HIV/AIDS. Cleve dedicates himself to creating the Names Project AIDS Memorial quilt; and Cecilia helps Ken enter a VA hospital for treatment, but "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" makes it challenging.
Night II
Part 2 of 4. In 1978, Cleve, Ken and Roma work together to fight Proposition 6, which would ban gays, lesbians, and their allies from working in California public schools. Later, in 1981, a disease dubbed "gay cancer" begins taking the lives of gay men and IV drug users.
Part I
A young peace activist escapes his repressive life in Phoenix and heads to San Francisco, hoping to find refuge and community, but finds that the struggle for survival is just as difficult as it was back home.