In the Band Played On

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by Roger Spottiswoode, Randy Shilts · 1993

A television film dramatizing the early AIDS epidemic, based on Randy Shilts’s investigative book and focusing on scientific, political, and institutional responses to the crisis.

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Patient zero myths obscure how epidemics really begin
The episode shows how blaming a single person can distort public-health history while obscuring the complex networks behind disease and cultural change.
Aug 21, 2026 · 60 min

1 episode featuring In the Band Played On

Patient zero myths obscure how epidemics really begin