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.

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") retur...
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A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter....

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

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...

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

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

The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...

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

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

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