The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
• April 22nd, 2017 • 1h 33min
Drama, TV Movie
Overview
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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