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.
Attila The Hun
Jan 1, 2001
Attila 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.
Bad King John
Jan 1, 2001
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Caligula
Jan 1, 2001
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Francisco Pizarro
Jan 1, 2001
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Adolf Hitler
Jan 1, 2001
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Idi Amin
Jan 1, 2001
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Ivan the Terrible
Jan 1, 2001
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Joseph Stalin
Jan 1, 2001
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Nero
Jan 1, 2001
No description available.
Pol Pot
Oct 15, 2001
Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
Grigori Rasputin
Jan 1, 2001
Grigori 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.
Thomas de Torquemada
Jan 1, 2001
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Vlad The Impaler
Jan 1, 2001
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Bloody Mary Tudor
Jan 1, 2001
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Countess Dracula
Jan 1, 2001
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Ilse Koch
Apr 15, 2002
She 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.