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The Most Evil Men and Women in History

The Most Evil Men and Women in History

NR2001•23m•8.0/10
Documentary

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8.0/10(3)

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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Production

Uden Associates

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

January 1, 2001

Last Aired

April 15, 2002

Networks

Discovery, 5

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
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Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
E1
Attila The Hun
Air date: 2001-01-01
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.
E2
Bad King John
Air date: 2001-01-01
E3
Caligula
Air date: 2001-01-01
E4
Francisco Pizarro
Air date: 2001-01-01
E5
Adolf Hitler
Air date: 2001-01-01
E6
Idi Amin
Air date: 2001-01-01
E7
Ivan the Terrible
Air date: 2001-01-01
E8
Joseph Stalin
Air date: 2001-01-01
E9
Nero
Air date: 2001-01-01
E10
Pol Pot
Air date: 2001-10-15
Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
E11
Grigori Rasputin
Air date: 2001-01-01
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.
E12
Thomas de Torquemada
Air date: 2001-01-01
E13
Vlad The Impaler
Air date: 2001-01-01
E14
Bloody Mary Tudor
Air date: 2001-01-01
E15
Countess Dracula
Air date: 2001-01-01
E16
Ilse Koch
Air date: 2002-04-15
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.

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