Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

United Kingdom

• 1997-03-19
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  Documentary
• ▪ 0h-59m

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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.

• Adam CurtisDirector

  Matt SkiltonMix Technician

  Adam CurtisProducer

  Annabel HobleyProducer

  Jane HewertsonUnit Manager

  Lavinia RiachiProduction Manager