The Most Evil Men and Women in History

23min

Documentary

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

Cast

Attila The Hun

1. Attila The Hun

23min

1st Jan 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

2. Bad King John

23min

1st Jan 2001

Caligula

3. Caligula

23min

1st Jan 2001

Francisco Pizarro

4. Francisco Pizarro

23min

1st Jan 2001

Adolf Hitler

5. Adolf Hitler

23min

1st Jan 2001

Idi Amin

6. Idi Amin

23min

1st Jan 2001

Ivan the Terrible

7. Ivan the Terrible

23min

1st Jan 2001

Joseph Stalin

8. Joseph Stalin

23min

1st Jan 2001

Nero

9. Nero

23min

1st Jan 2001

Pol Pot

10. Pol Pot

23min

15th Oct 2001

Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.

Grigori Rasputin

11. Grigori Rasputin

23min

1st Jan 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

12. Thomas de Torquemada

23min

1st Jan 2001

Vlad The Impaler

13. Vlad The Impaler

23min

1st Jan 2001

Bloody Mary Tudor

14. Bloody Mary Tudor

23min

1st Jan 2001

Countess Dracula

15. Countess Dracula

23min

1st Jan 2001

Ilse Koch

16. Ilse Koch

23min

15th Apr 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.

First air date

1st Jan 2001

Last air date

15th Apr 2002

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

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