Rob Epstein

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Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein is a gay non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. He has also won four national Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two DuPont Columbia Journalism awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards for his documentary films.

Most Popular Rob Epstein Trailers

Total trailers found: 27

Greetings from Washington, D.C. Trailer (1981)

16 October 1981

A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.

Underground Zero Trailer (2002)

15 March 2002

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Lovelace Trailer (2013)

08 August 2013

Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Musica! Trailer (2023)

01 September 2023

The Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have become treasured musicologists, first with their loving biography LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE (2019) and then with TAYLOR MAC’S 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC (2022).

Howl Trailer (2010)

26 August 2010

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself.

Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music Trailer (2023)

14 June 2023

This riotous concert film documents New York theater legend Taylor Mac's joyous, challenging, and ostentatiously queer 24-hour musical performance.

What Is Cinema? Trailer (2013)

06 September 2013

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.

And the Oscar Goes To... Trailer (2014)

01 February 2014

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO.

Then and Now: 1981-2004 Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

A short film mostly comprised of two sources: research footage from 1988 about the beginnings of the HIV epidemic from the perspective of medical professionals, and an interview with Cleve Jones in 2003 as he looks back upon his activism, and the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 2000s.

Film Hawk Trailer (2016)

20 January 2016

What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk.

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives Trailer (1977)

31 January 1977

More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian.

The Celluloid Closet Trailer (1996)

15 March 1996

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen.

Paragraph 175 Trailer (2000)

22 January 2000

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code.

The Battle of Amfar Trailer (2013)

18 January 2013

When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did.

The Times of Harvey Milk Trailer (1984)

07 October 1984

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

Impresario Trailer (2022)

21 June 2022

With vintage footage, interviews, and Marc Huestis' own energy and humor at the center, Impresario is an homage to a San Francisco icon and one of the founders of Frameline.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Trailer (1989)

01 December 1989

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project.

State of Pride Trailer (2019)

08 March 2019

Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman travel to three diverse communities – Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama – for an unflinching look at LGBTQ Pride, from the perspective of a younger generation for whom it still has personal urgency.

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice Trailer (2019)

06 September 2019

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.

The AIDS Show Trailer (1986)

12 July 1986

A recording of a play about the intangible impacts AIDS has on a community. This is a moving, beautifully photographed combination of theater and documentary that captures the incredible excitement of live theater and intensifies the power of the play's message.

Vito Trailer (2011)

14 October 2011

In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media.

Rescued from the Closet Trailer (2001)

29 May 2001

Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet.

End Game Trailer (2018)

21 January 2018

Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.

Where Are We? Our Trip Through America Trailer (1992)

21 January 1992

Accomplished documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeff Friedman take a trip across the American South and Southwest, asking people about their hopes and fears.

The Gospel of Eureka Trailer (2018)

11 March 2018

Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an infamous gospel drag show.

Two Films, One Legacy Trailer (2011)

22 March 2011

New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant’s Milk, featuring Epstein, Van Sant, aa

Zeitgeist 1977: The First Festival Trailer (2016)

19 June 2016

Participants in the very first "Gay Film Festival of Super-8 Films" (what ultimately became Frameline) share their recollections in these excerpts.