Crimes That Made History — Season 1, Episode 8: Flight 571: Acceptable Face of Cannibalism

Episode synopsis

On October 1972, an Uruguayan plane crashed into the Andes. 72 days later, 16 survivors are found. The incredible rescue fascinated the media across the world. How did they survive? An unspeakable truth gradually emerges: to survive, the survivors ate their dead comrades' bodies.

About Crimes That Made History

Crimes and bloody tales that made the headlines usually reveal a lot about the hidden fantasies of their time. From Jack the Ripper to the Andes crash, the ten episodes of this collection shed a black light on a page of history that left a mark on their time.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer
• E2Albert Soleilland: A Case for the Death Penalty
• E3Fritz Haarmann: Vampire in the Weimar Republic
• E4The St. Valentine's Massacre: Gang Rule in America
• E5Violette Nozière: The Patricidal Poisoner
• E6Abe Sada: The Fantasy of Japanese Eroticism
• E7Roswell: Back to the UFO
• E9The Jonestown Massacre: An American Apocalypse
• E10The Death of Princess Di