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How to Become a Tyrant - Miniseries
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Title: How to Become a Tyrant

Overview: The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

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Average Vote: 7.3 (213 votes)

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  • Narrator: Peter Dinklage
  • How to Become a Tyrant - Seize Power (Miniseries - 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.

    How to Become a Tyrant - Crush Your Rivals (Miniseries - 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.

    How to Become a Tyrant - Reign Through Terror (Miniseries - 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.

    How to Become a Tyrant - Control the Truth (Miniseries - Episode 4)

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

    How to Become a Tyrant - Create a New Society (Miniseries - 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.

    How to Become a Tyrant - Rule Forever (Miniseries - 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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