Movie·2019·1h 39m

Killing Patient Zero

Name: Killing Patient Zero
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2019-07-26
Rating: 5.556
Cast: Gaétan Dugas, Fran Lebowitz, Ronald Reagan, Randy Shilts, Richard Berkowitz

★ 5.6DocumentaryHistory

Synopsis

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.