

19/03/1997
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.

Fred Garrett
as Himself

George Gey
as Himself

Howard Jones
as Himself

Mary Kubicek
as Herself

Deborah Lacks Pullum
as Herself

Walter Nelson-Rees
as Himself

Roland Pattillo
as Himself

Roland Pattillo
as Himself

Sadie Sturdivant
as Herself

Adam Curtis
as Narrator
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