Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T....

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") returned. Some women escape the men that kidnap them,...

This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It analyzes the media's handling of the story and...

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed in Kingston...

A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter. Twice.

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the...

Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members to their kidnapped loved...

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...

In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is stolen from her bedroom in the middle of the...

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the...

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

Out of power politics, offended vanity and a desire for revenge, Hohenstaufen Emperor Henry VI and the King of France became accomplices in an...