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Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
�2004
Language
English
Description
Tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures...
Publisher
Osiris Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It is the day before Elliot has to have surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night. Elliot's path intersects with Chloe, a young photographer who invites him to her art show. Elliot welcomes the distraction and as the night descends, Chloe takes him on an intimate and exhilarating journey through the city. As morning approaches and Chloe learns of Elliot's condition, the magic of the evening unravels, and they must together...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different views on life. Sean is a weak family man who distances himself with work to avoid a dysfunctional home life that includes his wife Julie, and his rebelious teenage son Matt. Christian is an arrogant, narcissistc, unethical, ladies man who worships wine, women, and the all mighty dollar. He is just slick enough to do just about anything...
5) Charly
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Charly is an adult male with a cognitive disability struggling to survive in the modern world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove difficult. His teacher, Miss Kinian, takes Charly to the clinic where he is observed by doctors who have Charly "race" a mouse, Algernon. Algernon is usually the winner thanks to an experiment that greatly raised his intelligence. This experiment is given to Charly, who at first does not seem...
Series
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mary is a medical student growing increasingly broke and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolized. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the messy world of underground surgeries which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele.
7) Charly
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation. Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon.
8) Hot rod
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble is preparing for the jump of his life. Rod plans to clear fifteen buses in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation. He'll land the jump, get Frank better, and then fight him, hard.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The medical procedure, lobotomy, was considered a groundbreaking procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. What began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. The neurologist, Walter Freeman, in little more than a decade after his rise to fame, was decried as a moral monster, and that the lobotomy was one of the most barbaric...
11) Face/off
Series
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Sean Archer is trying to find a biological weapon that has been placed in Los Angeles by the sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind Castor Troy. Archer has been hunting Troy for the last 8 years and is consumed by revenge because Troy is responsible for the death of Archer's son. To do this, Archer must 'borrow' Troy's face using a surgical procedure to go undercover as Troy, but things go wrong when Troy assumes the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
Falling down: Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. A perfect murder: To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems...
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