How to Become a Tyrant

2021 - 2021

Seize Power

Episode 1

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.

Crush Your Rivals

Episode 2

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.

Reign Through Terror

Episode 3

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.

Control the Truth

Episode 4

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

Create a New Society

Episode 5

Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.

Rule Forever

Episode 6

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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Peter Dinklage

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Jonas Bell Pasht

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Peter Dinklage

Executive Producer

David Ginsberg

Executive Producer

Jake Laufer

Executive Producer

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Sah Tantivaranyoo

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Alexis Arenas

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Rodrigo Andrade

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