List of the best Rob Epstein movies: The Times of Harvey Milk(1984), Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice(2019), The Celluloid Closet(1996), Howl(2010), Underground Zero(2002), Lovelace(2013), Paragraph 175(2000), Vito(2011) ... ...
Documentary
USA
1984
87 Minutes
Director
activist mayor city official homophobe inspiring emotional engaging san francisco castro district store city hall court harvey milk dan white george moscone homosexuality politics underdog rise 1970s
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
95 Minutes
Director
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.
Gay & Lesbian, Documentary
France|UK|Germany|USA
1996
102 Minutes
Director
Jeffrey Friedman Antonio Banderas Susie Bright Quentin Crisp Matt Crowley Tony Curtis Richard Dyer Antonio Fargas Harvey Fierstein Whoopi Goldberg Farley Granger
gay/lesbian hollywood icons engaging profound confident hollywood, calif. hollywood prejudice cinema history homosexuality lesbianism aids love quest transformation underdog 1990s
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Biography, Drama
USA
2010
84 Minutes
Director
James Franco Jeffrey Friedman David Strathairn Jon Hamm Bob Balaban Jeff Daniels Mary-Louise Parker Treat Williams Alessandro Nivola Todd Rotondi Jon Prescott
beatnik poet friend judge publisher jack kerouac creative spirited engaging san francisco berkeley, calif. courtroom allen ginsberg poetry obscenity counterculture trial creative process wretched excess rise
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Documentary
USA
2002
70 Minutes
Rob Epstein Ira Sachs Kristine Samuelson Paul Harrill Frazer Bradshaw Norman Cowie
Biography, Drama
USA
2013
93 Minutes
Director
Amanda Seyfried Jeffrey Friedman Peter Sarsgaard Chris Noth Hank Azaria Bobby Cannavale Sharon Stone Robert Patrick Adam Brody Juno Temple James Franco
The 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.
Documentary
2000
76 Minutes
Director
resistance fighter jew hitler youth survivor bleak dark intense moving germany concentration camp holocaust homosexuality third reich torture death survival underdog wretched excess escape 1990s
Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman chronicle the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich. Narrated by Rupert Everett.
Documentary, Drama, History, Biography, Gay & Lesbian
2011
93 Minutes
Richard Barrios Richard Berkowitz Rob Epstein Joan Fontaine Jim Fouratt Jeffrey Friedman
Filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz pays tribute to Vito Russo, author of "The Celluloid Closet" and one of the Gay Pride movement's leading activists.