How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant

2021 1 Seasons ⭐ 7.369
Documentary War & Politics

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

Seasons

1. Seize Power

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 8.0

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.

2. Crush Your Rivals

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 7.5

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.

3. Reign Through Terror

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 8.0

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.

4. Control the Truth

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 8.0

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

5. Create a New Society

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 7.5

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

6. Rule Forever

2021-07-09 • ⭐ 8.0

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.

Top Cast

Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage

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