Film

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

6.0

0h 59m

1997

Synopsis

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.

Director

Adam Curtis

Documentary

medicineracismmedical researchmedical breakthroughprofessional ethicsethics

Cast & Crew

Fred Garrett

as Himself

George Gey

as Himself

Howard Jones

as Himself

Mary Kubicek

as Herself

Deborah Lacks Pullum

as Herself

Walter Nelson-Rees

as Himself

Roland Pattillo

as Himself

Roland Pattillo

as Himself

Sadie Sturdivant

as Herself

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