@article{1355876,
      recid = {1355876},
      author = {Castillo, Stephanie J.},
      title = {Simple courage an historical portrait in the age of AIDS /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (59 min.)},
      year = {1998},
      note = {Previously published as DVD.},
      abstract = {Simple Courage documents the treatment of leprosy victims  in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century. More than 8,  000 sufferers, mostly native, were banished to an isolated  peninsula and practically abandoned. One man, however, in a  simple act of courage, took it upon himself to bring  comfort to these hopeless people. He was Father Damien, a  Catholic missionary from Belgium, who spent sixteen years  caring for the "untouchables" until he himself succumbed to  the disease. He transformed their prison into a place of  decency and respect. Using archival footage and moving  interviews with survivors from the 30s and 40s, Simple  Courage shows the emotional pain of banishment from their  ancestral homes added to the ravages of the disease.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355876},
}