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    Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

    59'

    1997-03-19

    6

    Documentary

    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.

    DirectingAdam Curtis

    Cast

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    Fred Garrett

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    George Gey

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    Howard Jones

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    Mary Kubicek

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    Deborah Lacks Pullum

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    Himself

    Walter Nelson-Rees

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    Roland Pattillo

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    Roland Pattillo

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    Sadie Sturdivant

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    Narrator

    Adam Curtis

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United Kingdom
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Vote Count: 5
      2. Popularity: 0.5733
      3. Status: Released
      4. Original title:Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

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