The Most Evil Men and Women in History

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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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16 Episodes • Premiered 2001

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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.

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2. Bad King John

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3. Caligula

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4. Francisco Pizarro

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5. Adolf Hitler

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6. Idi Amin

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7. Ivan the Terrible

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8. Joseph Stalin

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9. Nero

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10. Pol Pot

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

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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.

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12. Thomas de Torquemada

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13. Vlad The Impaler

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14. Bloody Mary Tudor

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15. Countess Dracula

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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.

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