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How to Become a Tyrant
How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant

Season 1 · Episode 1
IMDb7.3
Released
7/9/2021
Duration
0h 30m
Genre
Documentary, War & Politics
Country
United States of America
Cast
Peter Dinklage

Overview

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

Episodes

Seize PowerEP 1AvailableNow playing

Seize Power

31m·7/9/2021·7.7

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.

Crush Your RivalsEP 2Available

Crush Your Rivals

27m·7/9/2021·7.3

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.

Reign Through TerrorEP 3Available

Reign Through Terror

28m·7/9/2021·7.7

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.

Control the TruthEP 4Available

Control the Truth

27m·7/9/2021·7.7

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

Create a New SocietyEP 5Available

Create a New Society

26m·7/9/2021·7.3

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

Rule ForeverEP 6Available

Rule Forever

30m·7/9/2021·7.7

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.

Cast

Peter Dinklage

Self - Narrator (voice)

Peter Dinklage

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