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.

At the age of 10, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped and held captive for eight years by a deranged man...

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") retur...

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. T...

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...
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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...

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

The disappearance of nursing student Holly Bobo remains a mystery for years. Even after a tight-knit...

Documentary examining the mysterious disappearance of financial advisor Lynda Spence, who vanished w...

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

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

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

You will discover a mysterious world where monuments of the great civilizations of the past intertwi...
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...

We get to meet Aslanbek—a teenage shepherd in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. “Aslanbek” is a story exp...

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