The Times of Harvey Milk is an engrossing and poignant documentary about the life and death of the charming and outspoken activist Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay politician in America. In 1978, about a year after Milk was elected to office in San Francisco, both Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by fellow politician Dan White. Their murders sparked both a candlelight vigil (on the night of their deaths) and citywide riots (after White's trial, as a response to the lenient sentence he received). By turns sad and funny, The Times of Harvey Milk won the Best Documentary Oscar in 1985.