The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Apr 22, 2017 | IMDB 6.3
93 min Watch NowDrama, History, TV 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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