Dead Famous DNA

Dead Famous DNA

Documentary 2014

Available on Prime Video

Veterinary scientist and presenter Mark Evans sets out on a ground-breaking quest to track down the last remains of some of history's most important and infamous figures, to find out what their biology can add to their biographies.

Documentary 2014

Starring Mark Evans

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

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.

46 min · 26 Mar 2014
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Experts analyse 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, and he tries to learn more about John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe from their hair.

47 min · 2 Apr 2014
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

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.

46 min · 9 Apr 2014

Mark Evans

Host

About

Dead Famous DNA

DOCUMENTARY

Veterinary scientist and presenter Mark Evans sets out on a ground-breaking quest to track down the last remains of some of history's most important and infamous figures, to find out what their biology can add to their biographies.

Information

Studio: C4
Released: 2014

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom) (SDH)