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Mermaids: The Body Found is a mockumentary television program [1] originally aired on American TV channels Animal Planet (May 27, 2012) and Discovery Channel (June 17, 2012). It tells a story of a scientific team's investigative efforts to uncover the source behind mysterious underwater recordings of an unidentified marine body.
Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film, directed by Tim Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical-triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families.
Merfolk, Merpeople, or simply Mer refers to humanoid creatures that live in deep waters like Mermaids, Sirens, Cecaelia etc. In English, female merfolk are called mermaids, although in a strict sense, mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance; male merfolk are called mermen. Depending on the story, they can ...
In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and ...
This whimsical, four-minute-long film is the first to feature mermaids. Siren of the Sea (or The Mermaid) 1911: Silent film starring Annette Kellerman as the first mermaid to actually swim in a costume tail in a film. Neptune's Daughter: 1914: Starring Annette Kellerman. A Daughter of the Gods: 1916: Starring Annette Kellerman. Queen of the Sea ...
The It List: Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan reunite in 'American Born Chinese,' PBS doc revisits all-female '70s rock band Fanny, 'MerPeople' dives into world of real-life professional mermaids and ...
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC The etymology of the name is contested. Robert S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin. [5] Others connect the name to σειρά (seirá, "rope, cord") and εἴρω (eírō, "to tie, join, fasten"), resulting in the meaning "binder, entangler", [6] [better source needed] i.e. one who binds or entangles through magic song.
The documentary “The Last of the Sea Women,” out Friday on Apple TV+, explores the lives of a group of these “real-life mermaids,” as the haenyeo are known, as they strive to protect their ...