Commitment to Life

Only in the darkness can you see the stars

Against a rich Hollywood backdrop, "Commitment to Life" documents the true story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles - and how an intrepid group of people living with HIV/AIDS, doctors, movie stars, studio moguls and activists changed the course of the epidemic.

Alison Arngrim

Bruce Vilanch

Melissa Rivers

Karamo Brown

Jim J. Bullock

Neil Tadken

Ron Nyswaner

Susan Bluestein

Howard Bragman

Jonathan Murray

Carl Bean

(Self (archive footage))

Cher

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Hanks

(Self (archive footage))

Shirley MacLaine

(Self (archive footage))

Robin Williams

(Self (archive footage))

Sharon Stone

(Self (archive footage))

Mark Wahlberg

(Self (archive footage))

Jane Seymour

(Self (archive footage))

Barbra Streisand

(Self (archive footage))

Don Johnson

(Self (archive footage))

Estelle Getty

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Cruise

(Self (archive footage))

Ryan Phillippe

(Self (archive footage))

Faye Dunaway

(Self (archive footage))

Ann-Margret

(Self (archive footage))

Whoopi Goldberg

(Self (archive footage))

Burt Reynolds

(Self (archive footage))

Lainie Kazan

(Self (archive footage))

Bette Midler

(Self (archive footage))

Rock Hudson

(Self (archive footage))

Sheryl Lee Ralph

(Self (archive footage))

Doris Day

(Self (archive footage))

Harvey Fierstein

(Self (archive footage))

RuPaul

(Self (archive footage))

Whitney Houston

(Self (archive footage))

Joan Rivers

(Self (archive footage))

Elton John

(Self (archive footage))

Sammy Davis Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Mamie Van Doren

(Self (archive footage))

George Michael

(Self (archive footage))

Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Joe Biden

(Self (archive footage))

Fabio

(Self (archive footage))

Carol Burnett

(Self (archive footage))

Alex Newell

(Self (archive footage))

Barack Obama

(Self (archive footage))

Lorna Luft

(Self (archive footage))

Jenifer Lewis

(Self (archive footage))

Madonna

(Self (archive footage))

Debbie Reynolds

(Self (archive footage))

Ed Asner

(Self (archive footage))

Melanie Griffith

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Dreyfuss

(Self (archive footage))

Morgan Fairchild

(Self (archive footage))

Angela Lansbury

(Self (archive footage))

Liza Minnelli

(Self (archive footage))

Elizabeth Taylor

(Self (archive footage))

George Hamilton

(Self (archive footage))

Kathy Najimy

(Self (archive footage))

Zsa Zsa Gabor

(Self (archive footage))

Sinbad

(Self (archive footage))

Zelda Rubinstein

(Self (archive footage))

Heather Thomas

(Self (archive footage))

Charles Nelson Reilly

(Self (archive footage))

Cassandra Peterson

(Self (archive footage))

Rod Stewart

(Self (archive footage))

Bill Clinton

(Self (archive footage))

Jeffrey Katzenberg

David Geffen

(Self (archive footage))

Naomi Judd

(Self (archive footage))

Noel Alumit

John Duran

Jackie Goldberg

Michael Gottlieb

Barry Krost

Bill Misenhimer

Chandi Moore

Torie Osborn

Patrik-Ian Polk

Bamby Salcedo

Jewel Thais-Williams

Brad Davis

(Self (archive))

Sandy Gallin

(Self (archive))

Carol Channing

(Self (archive))

Stevie Wonder

(Self (archive))

Liberace

(Self (archive))

Nancy Reagan

(Self (archive))

Steve Tracy

(Self (archive))

Magic Johnson

(Self (archive))

David Geffen

(Self (archive))

Ernie Anderson

(Self (archive))

Ryan White

(Self (archive))

Ted Kennedy

(Self (archive))

Gianni Versace

(Self (archive))

Scott Thorson

(Self (archive))

Barry Diller

(Self (archive))

Patti Austin

(Self (archive))

Anthony Fauci

(Self (archive))

Robert MacNeil

(Self (archive))

C. Everett Koop

(Self (archive))

Judy Woodruff

(Self (archive))

Pedro Zamora

(Self (archive))

Jerry Falwell

(Self (archive))

Henry Waxman

(Self (archive))

Jesse Helms

(Self (archive))

Timothy Ray Brown

(Self (archive))

William Dannemeyer

(Self (archive))

Steve Schulte

(Self (archive))