The Most Evil Men and Women in History — Season 1
About this season
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 (16)
1. Attila The Hun
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
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.
2. Bad King John
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
3. Caligula
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
4. Francisco Pizarro
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
5. Adolf Hitler
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
6. Idi Amin
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
7. Ivan the Terrible
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
8. Joseph Stalin
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
9. Nero
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
10. Pol Pot
Aired 15 October 2001 • 23 min
Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
11. Grigori Rasputin
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
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.
12. Thomas de Torquemada
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
13. Vlad The Impaler
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
14. Bloody Mary Tudor
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
15. Countess Dracula
Aired 1 January 2001 • 23 min
16. Ilse Koch
Aired 15 April 2002 • 23 min
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.