Movie Description:
Somthing the Lord Made tells the emotional true story oftwo men who Defied the rules of their time to launcha medical revolution, set against thebackdrop of the Jim Crow South. Workingin 1940s Balitmore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgey on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalockand lab technician Vivien Thomas form animpressive team. But even as they race against time tosave a dying baby, the two occupy very different places insociety. Blalock is the wealthy white Head of Surgery at JohnHopkins Hospitaland Thomas is black and poor, a skilled carpenter. As Blalock and Thomas inventa new field of medicine, savingthousan-ds of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendshipapart.
