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How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant

★ 7.4•2021•1 Seasons•ANIME

DocumentaryWar & Politics

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

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Top Cast

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Self - Narrator (voice)

Episodes

Season:

Seize Power

1. 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.

Aired: 7/9/2021

Crush Your Rivals

2. 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.

Aired: 7/9/2021

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Reign Through Terror

3. Reign Through Terror

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.

Aired: 7/9/2021

Control the Truth

4. Control the Truth

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

Aired: 7/9/2021

Create a New Society

5. 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.

Aired: 7/9/2021

Rule Forever

6. 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.

Aired: 7/9/2021