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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017·93 min

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Directed by George C. Wolfe

DramaHistoryTV Movie

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.

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Deborah Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Henrietta Lacks

Zakariyyah

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George C. Wolfe

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Peter Landesman

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Branford Marsalis

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) is about 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.

Who directed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?

George C. Wolfe directed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017).

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