I actually found that Russian prison doco a little disappointing. It didn't dig deep enough into their psychology, or how 20+years' confinement in a prison located in a forest the size of Germany really eats away at the soul. for me, a slightly wasted opportunity.
Now, don't laugh, but Channel 5 had quite an interesting documentary this week about the death of Marilyn Monroe.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/conspiracy-the-missing-evidence/episodes/episode-1-679I've always had an interest in this, and knew a fair bit - that Bobby Kennedy was at her house the day she died, and always denied it; that she had threatened to go public with her affairs with both Kennedys shortly before she died, and that her housekeeper complained in the 1980s that she was fed up of covering up the truth.
But this C5 doc had some genuinely interesting testimony, to suggest that she was force-fed sleeping pills by Bobby Kennedy's men, then shortly afterwards her psychiatrist killed her with an injection to the heart, after brushing aside an ambulance crew - who had arrived and were in the process of reviving her. The psychiatrist, Greenson, was also one of her lovers, and was the most celebrated shrink in Hollywood. If Monroe had also blabbed about their affair he would probably have gone to prison for inappropriate relations with a client.
Seems like they were lining up to kill her.
In the 1980s, three of the five people who were with Monroe when she died (a senior cop and two ambulance crew) attested to Greenson sticking a needle into her heart, then placing her body on a bed, with a row of bottles of sleeping bills bedside (but, as the cop on the scene noted, no glass of water).
Also issues over a dodgy postmortem, and how the media were led to report her death within hours as suspected suicide. That verdict stands today, especially in the public mind, despite this evidence.
This isn't the most sophisticated documentary you'll ever see, but the eyewitness testimony gives it a lot of weight.
