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Episodes
Season 1 · Miniseries
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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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31m
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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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27m
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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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28m
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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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27m
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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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26m
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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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30m
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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.
Not watched yet
31m
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.
Not watched yet
27m
3
▶
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.
Not watched yet
28m
4
▶
Control the Truth
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
Not watched yet
27m
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.
Not watched yet
26m
6
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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.
Not watched yet
30m
Cast
Peter DinklageSelf - Narrator (voice)Because you watched How to Become a Tyrant
★ 7.8Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
★ 7.2Hitler's Circle of Evil
★ 7.5Trust Me: The False Prophet
★ 8World War II with Tom Hanks
★ 7.3Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
★ 8.2The Vietnam War
★ 7.1History 101
★ 7.8MOURINHO
★ 8Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
★ 8World War II: From the Frontlines
★ 7.3Drug Lords
★ 7.6Churchill at War
★ 7.4Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
★ 7.2Five Came Back
★ 7.6American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
★ 7.2Turning Point: The Vietnam War
★ 7.1Amend: The Fight for America
★ 7.7Death of the Pastor's Wife