S01E01 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...
The Most Evil Men and Women in History
S01E16: 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.
Episodes
S01E02 Bad King John
S01E03 Caligula
S01E04 Francisco Pizarro
S01E05 Adolf Hitler
S01E06 Idi Amin
S01E07 Ivan the Terrible
S01E08 Joseph Stalin
S01E09 Nero
S01E10 Pol Pot
Responsible for the Killing Fields and Year Zero Pol Pot waged a gruesome war on his own population.
S01E11 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.
S01E12 Thomas de Torquemada
S01E13 Vlad The Impaler
S01E14 Bloody Mary Tudor
S01E15 Countess Dracula
S01E16 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.
