The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

This multi-award-winning (including the Oscar for best documentary) feature is a great companion piece to this year's Milk. Made only 6 years after Milk's assassination, it goes beyond the day of the murders to Dan White's trial, and features interviews with some of the people in Milk's life, as well as reporters who covered him. The muted trumpet in the soundtrack is Mark Isham, who went on to be one of my favorite composers. Now he has 111 credits to date, including the moody music to Trouble in Mind (1985), The Moderns (1988), Short Cuts (1993), and The Cooler (2003). The Castro movie theatre is featured in much of the documentary footage. I was sorry to hear today that Milk is no longer playing there. One would think they could do good business with it.