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.
The story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, a girl who was kidnapped outside a school bus stop and found alive e...
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...
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...
As „wings of men“ they became the faithful companion of a great nomadic nation thousands of years ag...
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...
At the age of 10, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped and held captive for eight years by a deranged man...
The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...
Out of power politics, offended vanity and a desire for revenge, Hohenstaufen Emperor Henry VI and t...
She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was ...
A docu-special, which recounts the terrifying true story in Elizabeth Shoaf's own words. Featuring n...
Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification ...
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and...
At the non-places of this world lie the struggles of nobodies, to improve, overcome and survive. The...
Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following...
In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is ...
On December 8, 1983 a fifteen year old Jewish boy from the city of Haifa was kidnapped, murdered and...
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.
An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds meth...