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....
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing la...

The story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, a girl who was kidnapped outside a school bus stop and found alive e...

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

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

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

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the myst...
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...

A documentary on the curious American domestic terrorist group, infamous for the 1974 kidnapping of ...

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

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

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the countr...

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

Out of power politics, offended vanity and a desire for revenge, Hohenstaufen Emperor Henry VI and t...

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

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

A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chr...

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