How to Become a Tyrant (2021)
The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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Episode 1 - Seize Power
Release Date: 2021-07-09Interested 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.
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Episode 2 - Crush Your Rivals
Release Date: 2021-07-09You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.
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Episode 3 - Reign Through Terror
Release Date: 2021-07-09When 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.
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Episode 4 - Control the Truth
Release Date: 2021-07-09Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
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Episode 5 - Create a New Society
Release Date: 2021-07-09Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
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Episode 6 - Rule Forever
Release Date: 2021-07-09Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.