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Partners of the Heart

Partners of the Heart

2002· 1h 0m

Documentary

Directed by Andrea Kalin, Bill Duke

7.0/ 10

Reviews

Overview

Recounts the extraordinary segregation-era partnership between two surgeons--one black and one white--who defied the medical establishment and changed the course of cardiac surgery.

Cast

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

Narrator (voice)

Alfred Blalock

Alfred Blalock

Self (archive footage)

Vivien Thomas

Vivien Thomas

Self (archive footage)

Christopher Haley

Vivien Thomas

Beau James

Alfred Blalock

Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance

Vivien Thomas (voice)

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