Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

1997

Documentary

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.

Credits

Director

Adam Curtis

Cast

Adam Curtis as Narrator

Deborah Lacks Pullum as Herself

Fred Garrett as Himself

George Gey as Himself

Howard Jones as Himself

Mary Kubicek as Herself

Roland Pattillo as Himself

Sadie Sturdivant as Herself