In the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, tradition is king. Polo's still played with a freshly killed goat and the men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.

A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter....

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...
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A documentary recounting the kidnappings of British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Vice-P...
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...

In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is ...

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...

The plot of the movie brings two people together - an immigrant filmmaker from Belarus and a 10 year...

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and...

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following...

Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification ...

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was ...

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the myst...

An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds meth...

Journalist Renée Nyberg meets showjumper Ulrika Bidegård, who in 1993 was kidnapped and kept locked ...

On December 8, 1983 a fifteen year old Jewish boy from the city of Haifa was kidnapped, murdered and...

Elizabeth Smart's harrowing abduction at 14 from her family's Utah home unfolds through her own word...

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.

Returning to the mountains of northern Vietnam to investigate the mysterious abduction of his teenag...

1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Co...