How to Become a Tyrant

IMDb TVDB Trailer
  • :
  • : 6
  • : 52
  • Netflix
  • 4
  • Documentary History Mini-series War

:

.

1
1x1
Seize Power
Episode overview
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.
1x2
Crush Your Rivals
Episode overview
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.
1x3
Reign Through Terror
Episode overview
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.
1x4
Control the Truth
Episode overview
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship, Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
1x5
Create a New Society
Episode overview
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
1x6
Rule Forever
Episode overview
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.

Characters