Something the Lord Made

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"Something the Lord Made" is a 2004 HBO biographical drama film depicting the groundbreaking heart surgery partnership between Black lab technician Vivien Thomas and white surgeon Alfred Blalock at Johns Hopkins.

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instanceOf film
awardReceived Peabody Award
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie NERFINISHED
basedOn the life of Alfred Blalock
the life of Vivien Thomas
castMember Alan Rickman NERFINISHED
Gabrielle Union NERFINISHED
Kyra Sedgwick NERFINISHED
Merritt Wever NERFINISHED
Mos Def NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Donald M. Morgan NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts development of the Blalock–Taussig shunt
racial segregation in American medicine
director Joseph Sargent NERFINISHED
distributor HBO NERFINISHED
editor Michael Brown NERFINISHED
executiveProducer Julian Krainin NERFINISHED
Mary Stuart Masterson NERFINISHED
genre biographical drama
medical drama
language English
leadActor Alan Rickman NERFINISHED
Mos Def NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Alfred Blalock NERFINISHED
Vivien Thomas NERFINISHED
musicBy Christopher Young NERFINISHED
nominatedFor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film NERFINISHED
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie NERFINISHED
originallyAired May 30, 2004
originalNetwork HBO
portrays Alfred Blalock NERFINISHED
Helen Taussig NERFINISHED
Vivien Thomas NERFINISHED
producer Mike Drake NERFINISHED
releaseYear 2004
runtimeMinutes 110
setting Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED
Johns Hopkins Hospital NERFINISHED
subject cardiac surgery
medical racism
surgical innovation
timePeriod 1930s
1940s
1950s
writer Peter Silverman NERFINISHED
Robert Caswell NERFINISHED

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Dante Terrell Smith notableWork Something the Lord Made