The Ball Method(2020)
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
Movie: The Ball Method
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Alice Ball
Dr. Dean
Dr. Hollmann
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Kalani
Nurse
Visitor (as Ed Stasik)
Nurse Addie
Nurse Harper
Test Patient 1
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Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
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2020-05-18
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