The Most Evil Men and Women in History

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•2001

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Episodes

23m

1. Attila The Hun

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.

23m

2. Bad King John

23m

3. Caligula

23m

4. Francisco Pizarro

23m

5. Adolf Hitler

23m

6. Idi Amin

23m

7. Ivan the Terrible

23m

8. Joseph Stalin

23m

9. Nero

23m

10. Pol Pot

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

23m

11. Grigori Rasputin

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.

23m

12. Thomas de Torquemada

23m

13. Vlad The Impaler

23m

14. Bloody Mary Tudor

23m

15. Countess Dracula

23m

16. Ilse Koch

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.

Overview

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.