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The Most Evil Men and Women in History
Overview
Documentary series with each episode focusing on a solitary historical figure who, for various reasons, including despotism, canibalism, genocide, and too many atrocities to imagine, are considered some of histories most vile and appalling figures.
Seasons
Season 1 (2001)
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16 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Attila The Hun
2001-01-01Attila The Hun Attila was Khan of the Huns. He is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army.
Runtime: 23 minEpisode 2: Bad King John
2001-01-01Episode 3: Caligula
2001-01-01Episode 4: Francisco Pizarro
2001-01-01Episode 5: Adolf Hitler
2001-01-01Episode 6: Idi Amin
2001-01-01Episode 7: Ivan the Terrible
2001-01-01Episode 8: Joseph Stalin
2001-01-01Episode 9: Nero
2001-01-01Episode 10: Pol Pot
2001-10-15Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
Runtime: 23 minEpisode 11: Grigori Rasputin
2001-01-01Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was an uneducated peasant who gained a reputation as a faith healer. His strange behavior and incredible influence over the imperial family made him notorious and his death made him a legend.
Runtime: 23 minEpisode 12: Thomas de Torquemada
2001-01-01Episode 13: Vlad The Impaler
2001-01-01Episode 14: Bloody Mary Tudor
2001-01-01Episode 15: Countess Dracula
2001-01-01Episode 16: Ilse Koch
2002-04-15She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" by the inmates because of her alleged cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. Survivor accounts of her actions describing her abuse of prisoners as extremely sadistic and cruel.
Runtime: 23 min
