Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)
• November 15th, 1994 • 0h 51min
Documentary
Overview
1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Community First, A Home for the Homeless
Released on: 2019-03-09
Documentary
Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin,...
Cavalcade of San Francisco
Released on: 1940-09-28
Documentary
This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.
Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
Released on: 2011-03-10
Documentary, Music
Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legen...
Like It Is
Released on: 1968-07-20
Documentary
This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free lo...
Gay Chorus Deep South
Released on: 2019-04-29
Documentary, Music
In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws and the divisive 2016 election, the San Fran...
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Released on: 2003-10-09
Documentary
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
Pablo
Released on: 2013-11-17
Documentary
Documentary that follows Pablo, a man that used to live on the streets in Brazil
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Released on: 2019-04-17
Documentary
Powerfully and heartbreakingly detailing the challenging process that LGBTQ refugees must go through...
Almost Human
Released on: 2019-03-21
Documentary
The filmmaker Jeppe Rønde has invited 10 of the world's foremost researchers - and a robot! - to ret...
State of Pride
Released on: 2019-03-08
Documentary
Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ...
Art From the Streets
Released on: 2006-06-10
Documentary
Award winning feature documentary about an art program for homeless people.
Mondo Topless
Released on: 1966-11-17
Documentary
Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorn...
The Bridge
Released on: 2006-10-27
Documentary
The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden G...
Working Class
Released on: 2011-09-08
Documentary
Loosely based on Charles Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities”, Working Class tells the tale of under...
Trickle Down Town
Released on: 2018-10-21
Documentary
Tomasz Biernacki’s thought-provoking documentary about the homeless crisis in Seattle. Deftly interw...
The Times of Harvey Milk
Released on: 1984-10-07
Documentary
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians ...
The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s
Released on: 1995-01-01
Documentary
San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the at...