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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

TV-MA Biography, Drama, History

Duration: 93 min

Plot

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Actors

Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney

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