Dead Famous DNA

Dead Famous DNA

Documentary 2014

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Mark Evans sets out to track down the remains of some of history's most famous figures. With eminent scientists applying the latest advances in DNA testing to the samples he obtains, he attempts to solve some of the mysteries that have persisted around them and raise awareness of what this fast-evolving science is now capable of.

Documentary 2014

TV-14

Starring Mark Evans

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Mark Evans discovers 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 · Feb 22, 2017 TV-14
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Mark Evans tries to learn more about John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe from samples of their hair, and travels to New Jersey to come face-to-face with Napoleon's penis. Experts analyse two of Charles Darwin's beard hairs to try to solve a 130-year-old riddle by identifying the debilitating mystery illness the 'Father of Evolution' suffered from for most of his life.

47 min · Mar 1, 2017 TV-14
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Mark 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. Mark also meets a Canadian dentist who owns one of John Lennon's teeth and wants to clone the Beatles legend, and tests what's claimed to be a tiny part of Marlon Brando.

46 min · Jan 30, 2018 TV-14

Mark Evans

Host

About

Dead Famous DNA

DOCUMENTARY

Mark Evans sets out to track down the remains of some of history's most famous figures. With eminent scientists applying the latest advances in DNA testing to the samples he obtains, he attempts to solve some of the mysteries that have persisted around them and raise awareness of what this fast-evolving science is now capable of.

Information

Studio: C4
Released: 2014
Rated: TV-14

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom) (SDH)