Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

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Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)

Directed by Adam Curtis

Documentary · 59m

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.

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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

Crew

Director
Adam Curtis
Producer
Adam Curtis, Annabel Hobley

Details

Release date
1997-03-19
Runtime
59m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom