How to Become a Tyrant

Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as historys despots prove in this sardonic docuseries.

2021 HD 30min TV-MA United States English

Peter Dinklage

Biography Documentary

dictator political documentary

S1E1 - Seize Power 2021-07-09

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

S1E2 - Crush Your Rivals 2021-07-09

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

S1E3 - Reign Through Terror 2021-07-09

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.

S1E4 - Control the Truth 2021-07-09

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

S1E5 - Create a New Society 2021-07-09

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

S1E6 - Rule Forever 2021-07-09

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.

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