
7.4
The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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1Episode 1Seize Power
31 min
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.
2Episode 2Crush Your Rivals
27 min
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.
3Episode 3Reign Through Terror
28 min
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.
4Episode 4Control the Truth
27 min
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
5Episode 5Create a New Society
26 min
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
6Episode 6Rule Forever
30 min
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.

Peter Dinklage
Self - Narrator (voice)
8.0