Death in Hollywood is a decent documentary with information on the tragic or untimely deaths of many Hollywood stars, but it does not engage in any speculation about the most mysterious of deaths (George Reeves or Natalie Wood, for example) and gets certain facts wrong.

It repeats the myth that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated, for example, which is simply not true. It also dismisses Marilyn Monroe's death as the result of an overdose of sleeping pills, ignoring the fact that no pills were found in her stomach. It states that Jean Harlow's Christian Scientist mother refused medical treatment for her daughter, which is untrue.

I can't help but wonder what facts it might have gotten wrong about the deaths I knew nothing about.

The documentary is also quite lacking in details -- it mentions nothing about Donald Turnupseed's role in James Dean's tragic death, for example. While it does contain somewhat graphic photos, such as Paul Bern's body, and actual video of Vic Morrow's terrible death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, it tends to overlook or minimize the truly gruesome murders of others, such as Bob Crane.

If you want details -- such as the sequence of events that happened on the boat before Natalie Wood died or the details leading up to the death of Bruce Lee -- you aren't going to find them in Death in Hollywood. You certainly aren't going to hear any speculation here at all about possible murders being covered up as suicides. It's still a good documentary featuring information on the deaths of many Hollywood stars, but I would advise the viewer not to accept the information given here as the final word on any star's death.