Partners of the Heart

Partners of the Heart

60 mins | Documentary | June 1, 2002

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.

Partners of the Heart

60 mins | Documentary | June 1, 2002

Partners of the Heart
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.
Producers
Original title Partners of the Heart
Directors Andrea Kalin, Bill Duke
Writers

Cast

Morgan Freeman

as Narrator (voice)

Alfred Blalock

as Self

Vivien Thomas

as Self

Christopher Haley

as Vivien Thomas

Beau James

as Alfred Blalock

Courtney B. Vance

as Vivien Thomas (voice)