The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It's built on journalist Anthony Summers' audio archive — hundreds of hours of conversations with people who actually knew the actress, locked away and unreleased for decades.

The film circles back to the Brentwood bedroom where the star was found dead in the summer of 1962. Voices of friends, doctors, lovers and hangers-on play over newsreel footage and dramatized reenactments, with the reel-to-reel tapes themselves spinning on screen. The Kennedy names surface, the official ruling gets poked at, and a portrait emerges of a woman the public never quite saw behind the persona.

Director Emma Cooper isn't chasing a tabloid scoop so much as carefully sorting fact from rumor from the convenient legend that grew up afterward. It rewards anyone drawn to true crime and old Hollywood stripped of its gloss. Stream The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022) online on iFILM.