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We Were Here
Directed by
David Weissman
Not Rated
2011
90m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
7.9
100%
86%
6.8
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A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
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Cast of We Were Here
Ed Wolf
Self
Paul Boneberg
Self
Daniel Goldstein
Self
Guy Clark
Self
Eileen Glutzer
Self
David Weissman
Director / Producer
Marsha Kahm
Director Of Photography
Bill Weber
Co-Director / Editor
Holcombe Waller
Original Music Composer
Jim LeBrecht
Sound
Lauretta Molitor
Sound
We Were Here Ratings & Reviews
Bitch Media
Monica Castillo
We Were Here does not move behind the scope of San Francisco, which I considered a benefit. It allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the story.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] We Were Here ultimately serves as a tribute -- not only to those who are no longer with us, but also to those who crossed the minefield and emerged as survivors, storytellers, and heroes.
Playback:stl
Sarah Boslaugh
...simple yet very intense, and if you have any interest in gay history, you won't want to miss it.
Knight at the Movies
Richard Knight
Cathartic and bittersweet with moments of joy and humor. Weissman's movie is a rare gift.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
an insular story, told by insiders, of a particular community - a community to which this reviewer happened to be connected ... invaluable as a reminder of how it felt to be helpless, to be thought lost, and yet prevail. They - we - did overcome.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
...this is a work that chronicles the very beginnings of a disease that shook the world for decades.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...honors the fallen, the survivors and those who helped both by documenting the intensity and the many issues surrounding the maelstrom which was the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Duane Dudek
[It's] as much about survival as tragedy, and any statistics in it pale in comparison to the personal testimony of those telling the tale.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
There's something profoundly inspirational about this portrait of a community coming together to battle prejudice and disease.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"We Were Here" pays eloquent homage to men and women who deserve to be celebrated and remembered as heroes.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
The filmmakers have amassed an amazing archive of photos and videotapes, but it is the intimate, personal testimonies that make the film so vital, urgent, and necessary.
The New Yorker
Bruce Diones
Its vivid, no-nonsense style (in which interviews, period photographs, and news footage merge seamlessly) makes the past present.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This clear-eyed and soulful documentary brings us inside the contagion in a way that is so intimate, so personal, you feel like you're hearing about these catastrophic events for the first time.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Director David Weissman does everything you're generally not supposed to do in a documentary - we get talking heads, old news footage, and still photographs, and that's about it - but We Were Here is never less than riveting.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
An extraordinarily moving, beautifully edited documentary...
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon plans but on keeping people alive.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A harrowing oral history of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco whose spine is the freshly recounted horror of an "avalanche" of grief.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There is no turning away from the screen.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Deeply affecting doc revisits the AIDS epidemic without any grandstanding.
Variety
Peter Debruge
We Were Here documents the epidemic through a powerful combination of first-hand testimony, archival photography and TV news footage.
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We Were Here: Voices From The Aids Years In San Francisco
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