The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4/22/2017Runtime
93 minsOverview
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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A measured reckoning with medical injustice and theft, examining how one woman's body became the foundation of modern medicine while she and her family remained invisible. The film traces the painful gap between Henrietta Lacks' scientific legacy and her erased humanity.
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Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Rose Byrne
Rebecca Skloot
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
Leslie Uggams
Sadie
Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
John Beasley
Cliff
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