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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 Wadleigh Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
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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
  • Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
  • Uggams, Leslie
  • Vance, Courtney B.
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Wolfe, George C.
  • HBO Video (Firm)
  • Goldsberry, Renée Elise, 1971-
  • HBO Films
  • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm)
  • Cine Mosaic (Firm)
  • Birney, Reed, 1954-
  • Byrne, Rose
  • Carroll, Rocky
  • Cathey, Reg E.
  • Dean, Kathryn, (Producer)
  • Harpo Films
  • Woo, Alexander
  • Landesman, Peter, 1965-
Actor
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Birney, Reed, 1954-
  • Byrne, Rose
  • Carroll, Rocky
  • Cathey, Reg E.
  • Goldsberry, Renée Elise, 1971-
  • Uggams, Leslie
  • Vance, Courtney B.
Film director
  • Wolfe, George C.
Film producer
  • Dean, Kathryn, (Producer)
Presenter
  • HBO Films
Production company
  • Harpo Films
  • Cine Mosaic (Firm)
  • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
  • HBO Video (Firm)
Screenwriter
  • Woo, Alexander
  • Landesman, Peter, 1965-
  • Wolfe, George C.
Subject
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • African American women -- Drama
  • Historical films
  • HeLa cells -- Drama
  • Film adaptations
  • Fiction films
  • Feature films
  • DVD-Video discs
  • Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Drama
  • Biographical films
  • Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Drama
  • Made-for-TV movies
  • Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Drama
  • Motion pictures
Genre
  • Historical films
  • Fiction films
  • Film adaptations
  • Feature films
  • Drama
  • Made-for-TV movies
  • DVD-Video discs
  • Biographical films
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • Motion pictures
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
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 Latin Spanish dialogue; English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing), French or Latin Spanish subtitles
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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