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The Race for the Double Helix TV

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Original title

The Race for the Double Helixaka

AKA

Life Story

Year

1987

Running time

97 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Mick Jackson

Screenwriter

William Nicholson. Novel: James Watson

Cast

Music

Peter Howell

Cinematography

Andrew Dunn

Producer

Co-production United Kingdom-United States;

A&E Television Networks, BBC, Horizon Films

Genre

Drama | Biography. TV Movie. Medical. 1950s

Synopsis

a dramatic rendering of intellectual competition for the discovery of the DNA structure in the 1950s. The story of the rivalries of the two teams of scientists attempting to discover the structure of DNA. Francis Crick and James D. Watson at Cambridge University and Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London.

Awards: 1987: BAFTA TV: Best Single Drama

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The Race for the Double Helix (TV)

1987

Mick Jackson