The Most Evil Men and Women in History

  • : 2001
  • : 16
  • : 3
  • Discovery
  • Documentary History

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Torquemada
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01, 2001
Tomás de Torquemada was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican friar, first Inquisitor General of Spain, and confessor to crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims of Spain. The number of .. show full overview
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Francisco Pizarro
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01, 2001
Francisco Pizarro González, was a brutal Spanish conquistador who was fuelled by greed and ambition. He conquered the Incan Empire and founded Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru.
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Caligula
Episode overview
01, 2001
There are few surviving sources on Caligula's reign, and although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first two years of his rule, after this the sources focus upon .. show full overview
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Adolf Hitler
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01, 2001
Hitler was appointed as The Chancellor of Germany in 1933, quickly transforming the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and .. show full overview
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Pol Pot
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01, 2001
As ruler of Cambodia Pol Pot was responsible for killing nearly 2 Million people that's a quarter (some sources even say a third) of the countries population. In his 4 year reign Pol Pot .. show full overview
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Nero
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01, 2001
Nero's cruelty, violence and grotesque appetite for self-indulgence brought the Roman empire to the brink of financial and political ruin. He is known for a number of executions, .. show full overview
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Idi Amin
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01, 2001
Idi Amin rose to become a brutal & utterly ruthless Dictator who comitted atrocities on his people. Amin's rule was characterised by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic .. show full overview
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Joseph Stalin
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01, 2001
After his brutal rise to power he embarked on his ruthless enforced collectivisation programmes and deliberate use of starvation, murder and labour camps to enforce his power and control .. show full overview
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Attila the Hun
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01, 2001
Attila the Hun was the Ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to .. show full overview
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Rasputin
Episode overview
01, 2001
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei.
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Vlad the Impaler
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01, 2001
Vlad the Impaler has been characterized as a tyrant who took sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing his enemies. The number of his victims ranges from 40,000 to 100,000.
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Ivan the Terrible
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01, 2001
Ivan IV, know as Ivan the Terrible, is most known for his brutal ruling, centralised administration of Russia and expantion of the boundaries of the Russian Empire. In 1581, Ivan beat .. show full overview
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Bad King John
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01, 2001
Throughout his 17 year reign the man who would be forever known as Bad King John betrayed those closest to him, persecuted the innocent and was the first King of England to be accused of .. show full overview
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Bloody Mary Tudor
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01, 2001
Mary I was the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her half brother, Edward VI, to the English .. show full overview
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Ilse Koch
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01, 2001
Ilse Koch, was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. She was one of the first prominent Nazis to .. show full overview
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Countess Bathory
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01, 2001
After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, .. show full overview