The Most Evil Men and Women in History
★ 8.0·2001·1 seasons · 16 episodes·Series
Documentary
Synopsis
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.
Episodes
Season 11E1Attila The HunAttila 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.23m2E2Bad King John23m3E3Caligula23m4E4Francisco Pizarro23m5E5Adolf Hitler23m6E6Idi Amin23m7E7Ivan the Terrible23m8E8Joseph Stalin23m9E9Nero23m10E10Pol PotResponsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.23m11E11Grigori RasputinGrigori 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.23m12E12Thomas de Torquemada23m13E13Vlad The Impaler23m14E14Bloody Mary Tudor23m15E15Countess Dracula23m16E16Ilse KochShe 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.23m
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