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Season 21 Episode 15 - Jim Allison: Breakthrough
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer, Jim Allison: Breakthrough is an homage to an unconventional superhero — a pioneering, harmonica-playing scientist from a small town in Texas who triumphed over a doubtful medical establishment to save innumerable lives around the world and win the Nobel Prize.
Episodes in Season 21
1
Made in Boise
60 min
2
Decade of Fire
60 min
3
The Interpreters
60 min
4
Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
60 min
5
ATTLA
60 min
6
Accept the Call
60 min
7
The First Rainbow Coalition
60 min
8
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
60 min
9
Leftover Women
60 min
10
We Believe In Dinosaurs
60 min
11
Always in Season
60 min
12
One Child Nation
60 min
13
Bedlam
60 min
14
The Hottest August
60 min
15
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
60 min
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16
Rewind
60 min
17
Eating Up Easter
60 min
18
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
60 min
19
Pipe Dreams
60 min
