Title:
Something the Lord made
ISBN:
9780783124049
Publication Information:
New York, NY : HBO Video, [2005]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 2004.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Joseph Sargent, writer Peter Silverman and executive producers Robert W. Cort and Eric Hertzel.
Summary:
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 from 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.
System Details:
DVD, REGION 1, WIDESCREEN PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL SURROUND, DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO.
Language Note:
ENGLISH, FRENCH, OR SPANISH DIALOGUE, FRENCH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES; CLOSED-CAPTIONED.
