Dead Famous DNA

Name: Dead Famous DNA
Released: 2014-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Mark Evans

TV Show · Documentary · History

Host Mark Evans tracks down partial remains of famous figures and uses cutting-edge DNA analysis to learn more about what genetically made them tick.

2014 · 46m

EPISODE 1

Hitler & Elvis

Mark Evans learns that Elvis Presley could have suffered from a genetic heart muscle disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which may have led to his tragically early death.
EPISODE 2

Darwin & Napoleon

Experts analyze two of Charles Darwin's beard hairs to identify a debilitating mystery illness; Evans comes face-to-face with Napoleon's penis in New Jersey; Evans tries to learn more about John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe from their hair.
EPISODE 3

Lennon & Hitler

Evans follows the extraordinary trail of relics claimed to come from Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, bones sold by a KGB defector and hair apparently found on a hairbrush at Hitler's mountain retreat by a US Army intelligence officer.