Commercial turkeys are “bred to suffer.”

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5. The book on which this documentary was based is great, too

"Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey" by Joe Hutto.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/review-of-illumination-in-the-flatwoods-128684565/?no-ist

The book is a nice read, very enjoyable and informative.

The documentary is really a re-creation. Joe Hutto's experiences were several years earlier and in the pine forests of the Florida Panhandle. The documentary was filmed in Central Florida and Hutto's part was played by "the backwoods savvy actor, Jeff Palmer" who re-created Hutto's experience by imprinting the poults and living with the young turkeys.
More: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-qa-with-naturalist-joe-hutto/7389/

Joe Hutto also lived with deer to study them and wrote a book about that experience in "Touching the Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch." I haven't read that one or "The Light In High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness--Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species" - I'll have to watch for them!