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When We Rise

Drama · 2017 · Rated 6.3/10

Last aired: S1 E8, Night IV Part II · 2017-03-03

When We Rise chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women, who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.

Cast

Michael K. Williams Ken Jones

Austin McKenzie Younger Cleve Jones

Emily Skeggs Younger Roma Guy

Fiona Dourif Younger Diane

Guy Pearce Cleve Jones

Jonathan Majors Younger Ken Jones

Mary-Louise Parker Roma Guy

Rachel Griffiths Diane

Season 1

E1 Night I Part I 2017-02-27 · 60 min In the two-hour premiere, as these idealistic social-justice fighters come out or are outed, they are forced from their jobs, their movements and their homes, and must escape to San Francisco in hopes of finding safe harbor. When their hopes turn to disappointment, they join the fledgling LGBTQ movement and together, locked arm in arm, set out to change the world.

E2 Night I Part II 2017-02-27 · 60 min

E3 Night II Part I 2017-03-01 · 60 min It is 1978, and Cleve Jones, Ken Jones and Roma Guy work together to fight Proposition 6, which would ban gays, lesbians, and their allies from working in California public schools.

E4 Night II Part II 2017-03-01 · 60 min

E5 Night III Part I 2017-03-02 · 60 min A decade has passed, it's the early 90s, HIV/AIDS continues to ravage the gay community, and Cleve, Ken and Richard now know they have this deadly disease.

E6 Night III Part II 2017-03-02 · 60 min Ken relies on Cecilia Chung's support as he struggles with addiction at a VA hospital. Cleve visits the Human Rights Campaign in D.C., where Richard Socarides lobbies for Bill Clinton to do better than "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act.

E7 Night IV Part I 2017-03-03 · 60 min It's 2008, and in the face of California's Proposition 8 stripping away the right of gays and lesbians to marry, a newly energized Cleve inspires a younger generation to organize a massive march on Washington D.C. to demand full, federal LGBTQ equality in all matters.

E8 Night IV Part II 2017-03-03 · 60 min Cleve takes the battle against Prop 8 through the federal courts all the way to the US Supreme Court. Ken works with Cecilia Chung to get support for his church.

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