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Recently, a Facebook friend told me to watch Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, a documentary chronicling the life of Joe Cross, a 310-pound man on a mission to get healthy.
The revelation appears in a Channel 4 documentary, Dead Famous DNA, broadcast next week, in which leading scientists attempt to extract DNA from relics and analyse their genome to solve mysteries associated with them.
Events SUNDAY, 11 p.m. www.hbo.com/autopsy Chat with Dr. Michael Baden, the former chief pathologist of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, after the premiere of the documentary "Dead Men Talking," on HBO.
Learn Your Execution Chinese: Interviews on death row have become China's new TV hit [Intermediate] bit.ly/yHDTuJ — Social Mandarin (@socialmandarin) March 6, 2012 The BBC show is based on the "Dead Men Talking" documentary, and the PBS International site describes a few of the condemned in the film: " 'Dead Men Talking' is not for the faint-hearted.
Federal investigators are confronted with an elaborate conspiracy that is even more difficult to untangle because those who carried it out are dead, and the documentary trail they left is littered with time-line gaps, confounding contradictions and a long line of Arabic aliases.
Its 1998 documentary, "Dead Blue: Surviving Depression," inspired Scientology protests at the network's Manhattan headquarters because it presented anti-depressant drugs in a positive light.
The best line in Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, a new documentary detailing the pioneering days of the National Lampoon, is a widely distributed remark about the death of one of the magazine's co-founders, Douglas Kenney, who fell off a cliff in Hawaii in 1980 at the age of 33.
I arrived at the theater several hours earlier in order to attend the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, a new documentary focused on Aoki directed by the relatively unknown filmmaker Justin Krook and produced by David Gelb (the director of the acclaimed Jiro Dreams of Sushi).
Correction Appended Four years, thousands of dead, dozens of documentaries — that, at least, is one way to tabulate the war in Iraq.
