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.
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...
After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") retur...
1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Co...
Life in a Kyrgyz aul (village) in the mountains connected to the rest of the world by a cable bridge...
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the myst...
Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...
One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. T...
In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trust...
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and...
Out of power politics, offended vanity and a desire for revenge, Hohenstaufen Emperor Henry VI and t...
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the countr...
The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...
She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was ...
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...
A documentary on the curious American domestic terrorist group, infamous for the 1974 kidnapping of ...
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...
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a p...