The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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2017 · Movie · 93 min· Updated Sep 2026
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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.

Heavy with the quiet ache of stolen legacy, this drama traces the profound distance between scientific progress and the family left in its wake. It balances clinical history against the intimate, lingering grief of a lineage denied its own story.

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George C. Wolfe

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Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Reg E. Cathey, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, John Douglas Thompson, Adriane Lenox

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