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      When We Rise

      TV-14 2017 1 Season History Drama LGBTQ+ List
      82% Avg. Tomatometer 34 Reviews 79% Avg. Audience Score 50+ Ratings Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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      Season 1 82% 2017 Details

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      Synopsis Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond.
      Executive Producer
      Dustin Lance Black, Laurence Mark, Bruce Cohen, Gus Van Sant
      Network
      ABC
      Rating
      TV-14
      Genre
      History, Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date
      Feb 27, 2017