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| Genre/Form: | Medical television programs Biographical television programs Fiction television programs Made-for-TV movies Video recordings for the hearing impaired Drama Teatro |
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| Named Person: | Vivien T Thomas; Alfred Blalock |
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Sargent; Julian Krainin; Alan Rickman; Mos Def, (Rapper); Kyra Sedgwick; Gabrielle Union; Merritt Wever; Christopher Young; HBO Video (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 078312404X 9780783124049 |
| OCLC Number: | 56899406 |
| Language Note: | English, French, or Spanish dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Notes: | Special features: Audio commentary with director Joseph Sargent, writer Peter Silverman and executive producers Robert W. Cort and Eric Hertzel; Making history slide show. |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Donald M. Morgan ; editor, Michael Brown ; music composer, Christopher Young ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Vincent Peranio. |
| Cast: | Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef, Charles Dutton, Mary Stuart Masterson. |
| Production notes: | Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 2004. |
| Target Audience: | Not rated. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. |
| Other Titles: | Something the Lord made |
| Responsibility: | HBO Films presents a Cort/Madden production, a Joseph Sargent film ; producer, Julian Krainin ; produced by Mike Drake ; written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell ; directed by Joseph Sargent. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 184681 |
Abstract:
Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined 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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