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Life Story is a film of genre Drama directed by Mick Jackson released in USA on 14 september 1987 with Jeff Goldblum
Life Story (1987)
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Add to a movie listLife Story (known as The Race for the Double Helix or Double Helix in the United States) is a 1987 TV film dramatisation of the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953. The film was directed by Mick Jackson for the BBC's Horizon science series and won several prizes including the 1988 BAFTA TV Award as the Best Single Drama.
Actors
Jeff Goldblum
(Jim Watson)
Tim Pigott-Smith
(Francis Crick)
Alan Howard
(Maurice Wilkins)
Juliet Stevenson
(Rosalind Franklin)
Betsy Brantley
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