American Experience – S15 E08 : Partners of the Heart

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Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black man with only a high-school diploma, and Alfred Blalock, the patrician chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Blalock pioneered the surgery to correct the congenital heart defect, but it was Thomas who devised to procedures that were used. And they did it at a time, narrator Morgan Freeman says, when the two "could not share the same lunch table in the Hopkins cafeteria."

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Tom Hanks
as Narrator (voice)
Morgan Freeman
as Narrator (voice)
Denzel Washington
as Self - Narrator
Ellen Burstyn
as Narrator (voice)
Jeffrey Wright
as Narrator (voice)
Benjamin Bratt
as Narrator (voice)
Susan Sarandon
as Narrator (voice)
Keith David
as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
Stacy Keach
as Narrator (voice)
Kyle MacLachlan
as Narrator
Robert Duvall
as Narrator (voice)
Kenneth Branagh
as Narrator (voice)
Liev Schreiber
as Narrator (voice)
Chris Cooper
as Narrator (voice)
Laura Linney
as Narrator (voice)
Holly Hunter
as Mary Lincoln (voice)
Zahn McClarnon
as Wampanoag man
Richard Thomas
as Narrator (voice)
F. Murray Abraham
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mary McDonnell
as Narrator (voice)
Donald Sutherland
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Christopher Plummer
as Narrator
Randy Quaid
as Narrator (voice)
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Officer Stephen Colden
Keith Carradine
as Narrator (voice)
Bill Paxton
as Self - Reader (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
as Narrator (voice)
Oliver Platt
as Narrator (voice)
Bridget Regan
as Angelica Shippen
Scott Glenn
as Narrator (voice)
David Morse
as Abraham Lincoln
Glenn Close
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Matthew Broderick
as Jack Binns (voice)
Héctor Elizondo
as Narrator (voice)
Kathy Bates
as Narrator (voice)
Peter Krause
as Narrator
Joe Mantegna
as Narrator (voice)
Brian Dennehy
as Aaron Burr (voice)
Vanessa Williams
as Narrator (voice)
Roy Scheider
as Narrator (voice)
Andre Braugher
as Narrator
Alex Meraz
as Warrior
Marion Ross
as Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
Linda Hunt
as Narrator (voice)
Campbell Scott
as Narrator (voice)
Wes Studi
as Warrior in Canoe

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