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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Rating 6.3 / 10Release April 22, 2017Runtime 93 min

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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