How to Become a Tyrant

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  E1

  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.

  2021-07-09 · 31m
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  E2

  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.

  2021-07-09 · 27m
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  E3

  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.

  2021-07-09 · 28m
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  E4

  Control the Truth

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

  2021-07-09 · 27m
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  E5

  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.

  2021-07-09 · 26m
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  E6

  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.

  2021-07-09 · 30m

Top cast

Peter Dinklage

Self - Narrator (voice)