How to Become a Tyrant
7.4
July 9, 2021
1 Season • 6 Episodes
EndedOverview
The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
Cast
Peter Dinklage
Self - Narrator (voice)
Episodes
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The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
Self - Narrator (voice)
July 9, 2021 • 31m
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.
July 9, 2021 • 27m
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.
July 9, 2021 • 28m
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.
July 9, 2021 • 27m
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
July 9, 2021 • 26m
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
July 9, 2021 • 30m
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.
