Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

Overview

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

Cast

F

Fred Garrett

Himself

G

George Gey

Himself

H

Howard Jones

Himself

M

Mary Kubicek

Herself

D

Deborah Lacks Pullum

Herself

W

Walter Nelson-Rees

Himself

R

Roland Pattillo

Himself

R

Roland Pattillo

Himself

S

Sadie Sturdivant

Herself

Adam Curtis

Narrator

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