The Most Evil Men and Women in History

1. Attila The Hun

Air Date: 2001-01-01

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

Air Date: 2001-01-01

3. Caligula

Air Date: 2001-01-01

4. Francisco Pizarro

Air Date: 2001-01-01

5. Adolf Hitler

Air Date: 2001-01-01

6. Idi Amin

Air Date: 2001-01-01

7. Ivan the Terrible

Air Date: 2001-01-01

8. Joseph Stalin

Air Date: 2001-01-01

9. Nero

Air Date: 2001-01-01

10. Pol Pot

Air Date: 2001-10-15

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

11. Grigori Rasputin

Air Date: 2001-01-01

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

Air Date: 2001-01-01

13. Vlad The Impaler

Air Date: 2001-01-01

14. Bloody Mary Tudor

Air Date: 2001-01-01

15. Countess Dracula

Air Date: 2001-01-01

16. Ilse Koch

Air Date: 2002-04-15

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.