Episode 1: Seize Power

2021-07-09

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.

Runtime: 31 min

Episode 2: Crush Your Rivals

2021-07-09

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.

Runtime: 27 min

Episode 3: Reign Through Terror

2021-07-09

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.

Runtime: 28 min

Episode 4: Control the Truth

2021-07-09

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

Runtime: 27 min

Episode 5: Create a New Society

2021-07-09

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

Runtime: 26 min

Episode 6: Rule Forever

2021-07-09

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.

Runtime: 30 min