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

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Dante Terrell Smith notableWork Something the Lord Made
Joseph Sargent notableWork Something the Lord Made
Joseph Sargent directed Something the Lord Made