• Friday, Jul 10, 2026

    7 PM (88 mins)
    BAMPFA

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The Times of Harvey Milk

Rob Epstein
United States, 1984

35mm Archival Print

  • Introduction
    Ross Lipman

    Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is the author of The Archival Impermanence Project.

The Times of Harvey Milk has become a film that defies any expiration date. It is the rare documentary that speaks to our time, its own, and the intervening years with equal fluency.

B. Ruby Rich, The Current

Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk is a powerful record of the beloved activist/politician’s inspirational life and work. Through deep archival biographical material and emotion-filled reminiscences of friends and colleagues, Epstein reveals an intimate and complex portrait of the many sides of Milk (including his irreverent sense of humor). From Milk’s improbable, heroic rise to his horrific, senseless murder, Epstein’s work serves as a potent and unwavering eyewitness to history.

Todd Wiener
FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Rob Epstein
  • Judith Coburn
  • Carter Wilson

Cinematographer

  • Frances Reid

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 88 mins

Source

  • UCLA Film & Television Archive

Permission

  • Janus Films

Additional Info

  • Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Telling Pictures, the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, and Earle-Tones Music, Inc., with funding provided by The Ahmanson Foundation in association with the Sundance Institute.

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