S01 E012021-07-09 / 31 MIN
SEIZE POWER
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.
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PETER DINKLAGESelf - Narrator (voice)
HOW TO BECOME A TYRANT
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The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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S01 E022021-07-09 / 27 MIN
CRUSH YOUR RIVALS
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.
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S01 E032021-07-09 / 28 MIN
REIGN THROUGH TERROR
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.
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S01 E042021-07-09 / 27 MIN
CONTROL THE TRUTH
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
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S01 E052021-07-09 / 26 MIN
CREATE A NEW SOCIETY
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
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S01 E062021-07-09 / 30 MIN
RULE FOREVER
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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