How to Become a Tyrant

2021
How to Become a Tyrant

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EP1 Seize Power Jul 09, 2021

Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.

EP2 Crush Your Rivals Jul 09, 2021

You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.

EP3 Reign Through Terror Jul 09, 2021

When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.

EP4 Control the Truth Jul 09, 2021

Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.

EP5 Create a New Society Jul 09, 2021

Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.

EP6 Rule Forever Jul 09, 2021

Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.
7.4| TV-MA| en| Documentary, War & Politics
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The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

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Peter Dinklage as Narrator