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.
For the first time, the story of a kidnapping that made history. Giorgio Calissoni, kidnapped with h...
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The story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, a girl who was kidnapped outside a school bus stop and found alive e...
Documentary feature about Kyrgyzstan, the home of the poet Tschingis Aitmatov and his characters, en...
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A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquain...
As „wings of men“ they became the faithful companion of a great nomadic nation thousands of years ag...
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At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing la...
The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one final round of hilarious, absurd, and d...
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the myst...
After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") retur...
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...
The disappearance of nursing student Holly Bobo remains a mystery for years. Even after a tight-knit...
In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is ...
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the countr...
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and...
Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification ...