Episode
Modern Marvels: Torture Devices
Overview
For more than 3,000 years, emperors and generals, dictators and police, criminals, clerics, and even medical doctors have created and used a vast array of torture devices–everything from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull, which slowly barbecued the victim, to the elaborate mechanical apparatuses of the Spanish Inquisition. A medical doctor who specializes in victims of torture reveals how the human body responds to their use–from the earliest excruciating contrivances to the more modern.
Details
- Series
- Modern Marvels
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 2003-05-22
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Torture Devices is Episode 25 in Season 10 of Modern Marvels. It aired on 2003-05-22. The runtime is 44 min.
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