The Most Evil Men and Women in History (2001)
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.
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Episode 1 - Attila The Hun
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 2 - Bad King John
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Episode 3 - Caligula
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Episode 4 - Francisco Pizarro
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Episode 5 - Adolf Hitler
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Episode 6 - Idi Amin
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Episode 7 - Ivan the Terrible
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Episode 8 - Joseph Stalin
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Episode 9 - Nero
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Episode 10 - Pol Pot
Release Date: 2001-10-15Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
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Episode 11 - Grigori Rasputin
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 12 - Thomas de Torquemada
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Episode 13 - Vlad The Impaler
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Episode 14 - Bloody Mary Tudor
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Episode 15 - Countess Dracula
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Episode 16 - Ilse Koch
Release Date: 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.