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Surviving History

Surviving History

Description: If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside an Iron Maiden or stretched and twisted on a torturer's rack or forced to eat live cockroaches to survive in a penal colony -- well, probably some kind of intensive therapy would be in order. Failing that, however, you can satisfy your curiosity via this series, wherein clever craftsmen from Ohio's haunted-house prop house The Scarefactory re-create (nonlethally) some of history's most harrowing devices.
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 2008
Number of seasons: 1
Number of episodes: 9
First episode air date: June 15, 2008
Network: History
Cast: Brian Shoaf, Josh Craig, Dave Fachman, DJ Weatherby, MORE
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