The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Home Box Office ; screenwriters, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe ; director, George C. Wolfe
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Label
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Home Box Office ; screenwriters, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe ; director, George C. Wolfe
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A
Main title
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Medium
videorecording
Responsibility statement
Home Box Office ; screenwriters, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe ; director, George C. Wolfe
Runtime
90
Summary
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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Biographical television programs
- Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- -- Film adaptations
- Historical television programs
- HeLa cells -- Fiction
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Fiction
- Made-for-TV movies
- Cancer + Patients -- Virginia -- Fiction
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor9
- Genre3
- Subject9
- Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Biographical television programs
- Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- -- Film adaptations
- Historical television programs
- HeLa cells -- Fiction
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Fiction
- Made-for-TV movies
- Cancer + Patients -- Virginia -- Fiction
- Content1