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pivic
17May12
Very simple and straightforward documentary on a simple, strong and fierce person by the name of Harvey Milk, who really did a lot to try and make life easier for homosexuals, heterosexuals... Well, tax-payers in general. It describes his life and troubles in depth without becoming clogged. Good interviews, very well-made and tragic. Recommendable.
davefilkins
20Apr12
"You've gotta give 'em hope." Quite possibly the greatest political documentary of all time.
Joshuah
23Apr11
despite its very simplistic nature, it's entertaining from start to finish... flawlessly constructed concerning it's subject. it much magnifies the political movement Milk created rather than biographies him. I wish it would have been way longer, but that fact that it is short and to the point makes it very accessible according to all viewers and their opinions.
richmondhill
23Feb10
Solid, straight-forward documentary, classically structured around witness statements and recollections coupled with archive footage and a righteous sense of the unjust - and none-the-worse for it.
Abel Magwitch
10Dec09
I watched this as an intro to the life of Harvey Milk, prior to viewing "Milk." It is a straightforward telling of the rise of Harvey Milk in the SF political and gay scene. Since the documentary begins with the end, we know that we are marching toward an inevitable tragedy and the filmmaker moves all of the players into place through the use of interviews with contemporaries and archival footage. The story, and the tragedy, do not end with the murders as the trial provides an "act II" for the city of SF. It was clearly an injustice and the filmmakers do a good job of explaining the role that the death of a gay man in 1978 plays in mitigating an appropriate outcome. I feel like we learn a lot about Harvey Milk in this movie but he doesn't seem to ever lift out of the two-dimensional.