Something the Lord made

HBO Films presents a CortMadden production in association with Krainin Productions a Joseph Sargent film ; producer Julian Krainin and Mike Drake ; written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell ; directed by Joseph Sargent
videorecording (DVD) - 2004

Tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear them apart.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sargent, Joseph, 1925-2014, Rickman, Alan, Mos Def (Rapper)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Published: [New York, NY] : HBO Video, c2004.
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511 1 |a Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef, Charles Dutton, Mary Stuart Masterson. 
508 |a Director of photography, Donald M. Morgan ; editor, Michel Brown ; music composer, Christopher Young ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Vincent Peranio. 
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