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Angels in America (miniseries)

2003 HBO miniseries based on the play of the same name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Angels in America is a 2003 American miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the miniseries revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The miniseries explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.

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The public source identifies “Angels in America (miniseries)” as 2003 HBO miniseries based on the play of the same name. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Angels, America and miniseries.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 1991, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Angels, America and miniseries providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2003, 1991 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Angels in America (miniseries)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.