• 2021
  • TV-14
  • 23m
How to Become a Tyrant

Summary Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic docuseries. View more details

  • 2021
  • TV-14
  • 23m

How to Become a Tyrant

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Dinklage Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Waller Newell Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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7.4

Details

Genres : History War Biography Documentary

Release date : Jul 8, 2021

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Netflix Site

Language : English

Production companies : Estuary Films Six Point Harness Citizen Jones

Summary Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic docuseries. View more details

Details

Genres : History War Biography Documentary

Release date : Jul 8, 2021

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Netflix Site

Language : English

Production companies : Estuary Films Six Point Harness Citizen Jones

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jul 08, 2021
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.
Episode 2 • Jul 08, 2021
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.
Episode 3 • Jul 08, 2021
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.
Episode 4 • Jul 08, 2021
Control the Truth
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
Episode 5 • Jul 08, 2021
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.
Episode 6 • Jul 08, 2021
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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