The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Resource Information

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

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

• Cathey, Reg E.
• Birney, Reed, 1954-
• Byrne, Rose
• Carroll, Rocky
• Uggams, Leslie
• Goldsberry, Renée Elise, 1971-
• Winfrey, Oprah
• 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

• Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm)
• Harpo Films
• Cine Mosaic (Firm)

Publisher

• HBO Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Landesman, Peter, 1965-
• Wolfe, George C.
• Woo, Alexander

Subject

• Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Drama
• Made-for-TV movies
• Made-for-TV movies
• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Virginia
• Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Drama
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• HeLa cells
• HeLa cells -- Drama
• Historical films
• Historical films
• African American women
• Historical films
• Human experimentation in medicine
• Fiction films
• Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951
• African American women -- Drama
• Biographical films
• Biographical films
• Biographical films
• Cancer -- Patients
• Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films

Genre

• Made-for-TV movies
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Drama
• Biographical films
• Feature films
• Historical 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). Closed-captioned

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