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- A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
- A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
- Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
- An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
- A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
- A prep school senior from a wealthy family turns down college to pursue a career as a professional boxer.
- During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpenter's son named Vivien Thomas, who had a talent for surgery, along with a white surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock, who defied the medical establishment created a partnership that changed the course of cardiac surgery. With only a high school diploma, Thomas became a leading cardiac pioneer and educator of two generations of the United States' premiere heart surgeons. This moving documentary tells the story of Thomas and his relationship with Blalock, one that ushered in advances in surgery that are still in existence today.
- Viewers send Guy to three top-flight diners, including a Baltimore joint with a huge range of selections, a Minneapolis diner run by a former CIA employee and a Salt Lake City diner with a 1940s decor.