
Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
1994, English. Directed by Ken Swartz.
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.
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- 0h 51m
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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel runs 51 minutes (0h 51m).
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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 November 1994. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel?
Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994) was directed by Ken Swartz and stars Hank Wilson, Peter Wilson, Pam Moore.