If you call him by his name, most people might not know who you’re talking about. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, christened by his Marxist father with Lenin’s middle name (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), was born with a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other. He traded those items for bombs and guns when he emigrated from his native Caracas, Venezuela, to London. In time, he became the most wanted criminal in the world, known as Carlos the Jackal. (This is where people say, “Oh, yes, him!”) From 1973 to 1985, he conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings—supposedly in favor of the Palestinian liberation—and was responsible for many lives lost and convicted for 16 of them. He is now behind bars with three life sentences. The Jackal Speaks, a new documentary directed by Yaron Niski, features interviews with the violent felon who had the aura of a James Bond villain. Turns out, The Guardian writes, “it now seems they actually spent years chasing a loser.” —Carolina de Armas