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
Fred Garrett
Himself
George Gey
Himself
Howard Jones
Himself
Mary Kubicek
Herself
Deborah Lacks Pullum
Herself
Walter Nelson-Rees
Himself
Roland Pattillo
Himself
Roland Pattillo
Himself
Sadie Sturdivant
Herself
Adam Curtis
Narrator
