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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
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The work The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ipswich Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
Label
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
Statement of responsibility
HBO Films presents ; a Your Face Goes Here Entertainment, Harpo Films, Cine Mosaic production ; a George C. Wolfe film ; produced by Kathryn Dean ; screenplay by Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe ; directed by George C. Wolfe
Contributor
  • Yanes, Aaron
  • Cine Mosaic (Firm)
  • HBO Films
  • HBO Video (Firm)
  • Harpo Films
  • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm)
  • Birney, Reed, 1954-
  • Byrne, Rose
  • Carroll, Rocky
  • Cathey, Reg E.
  • Dean, Kathryn, (Producer)
  • El Fani, Sofian
  • Goldsberry, Renée Elise, 1971-
  • Landesman, Peter, 1965-
  • Marsalis, Branford
  • Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
  • Uggams, Leslie
  • Vance, Courtney B.
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Wolfe, George C.
  • Woo, Alexander
Actor
  • Goldsberry, Renée Elise, 1971-
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Cathey, Reg E.
  • Carroll, Rocky
  • Byrne, Rose
  • Birney, Reed, 1954-
  • Uggams, Leslie
  • Vance, Courtney B.
Director of photography
  • El Fani, Sofian
Editor of moving image work
  • Yanes, Aaron
Film director
  • Wolfe, George C.
Film producer
  • Dean, Kathryn, (Producer)
Presenter
  • HBO Films
Production company
  • Cine Mosaic (Firm)
  • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm)
  • Harpo Films
Publisher
  • HBO Video (Firm)
Screenwriter
  • Wolfe, George C.
  • Woo, Alexander
  • Landesman, Peter, 1965-
Subject
  • Made-for-TV movies
  • African American women -- Drama
  • Biographical films
  • Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Drama
  • Feature films
  • Fiction films
  • Film adaptations
  • HeLa cells -- Drama
  • Historical films
  • Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Drama
  • Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Drama
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Genre
  • Fiction films
  • Biographical films
  • Drama
  • Historical films
  • Film adaptations
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • Made-for-TV movies
  • Feature films
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
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
Cataloging source
NHP
Characteristic
videorecording
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Credits note
Music, Branford Marsalis; editor, Aaron Yanes; director of photography, Sofian El Fani
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
Rating: TV-MA
Language note
English, French, or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
LC call number
PN1992.77
LC item number
.I46 2017
PerformerNote
Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Reg E. Cathey
Runtime
90
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action

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