WATCH THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS MOVIE TV
With a supporting cast that includes Renée Elise Goldsberry, Reg E. Australia streaming service Binge offers a wide variety of TV shows and movies, including both Australian and international content. Aided by writer Rebecca Skloot, Deborah Lacks embarks on a quest to learn.
Told primarily through the eyes of Lack’s daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and journalist Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne), the film chronicles Deborah’s search to learn about the mother she never knew, and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks’ cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, from cancer to polio to radiation to AIDS, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever. In 1951, cancerous cells from Henrietta Lacks lead to breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever.
Boasting an exceptional cast and production team, and based on Rebecca Skloot’s critically acclaimed 2010 nonfiction best-seller of the same name, this HBO Films drama tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an AfricanAmerican woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line, known as HeLa.
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