Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond

Spurred on to by his lifelong quest to find a cure for the cancer that killed his mother, renegade, harmonica-playing scientist Jim Allison uses an open heart, imagination, and courageous spirit to seek an answer. He’s relentless in his fight against the skeptics of the medical establishment, but when Sharon Belvin received a then-experimental drug based on Allison's research 17 years ago and her metastatic melanoma tumors vanished, an abiding sense of hope begins to take root. In 2018, this medical hero shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for launching an effective new way to attack cancer by treating the immune system rather than the tumor. The fascinating story of Allison's research is kept lively with simple animation, narration by Woody Harrelson, and harmonica riffs played alongside Willie Nelson.

Spurred on to by his lifelong quest to find a cure for the cancer that killed his mother, renegade, harmonica-playing scientist Jim Allison uses an open heart, imagination, and courageous spirit to seek an answer. He’s relentless in his fight against the skeptics of the medical establishment, but when Sharon Belvin received a then-experimental drug based on Allison's research 17 years ago and her metastatic melanoma tumors vanished, an abiding sense of hope begins to take root. In 2018, this medical hero shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for launching an effective new way to attack cancer by treating the immune system rather than the tumor. The fascinating story of Allison's research is kept lively with simple animation, narration by Woody Harrelson, and harmonica riffs played alongside Willie Nelson.