The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
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Genre : Drama, TV Movie
Runtime : 1H 33M
Director : George C. Wolfe
Writer : George C. Wolfe
Synopsis
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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