How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant

Ended First aired 09/Jul/2021 United States English 1 season(s) 6 episode(s)
DocumentaryWar & Politics
The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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Season 1 · Miniseries
6 episode(s) · Air date: 09/Jul/2021
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The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

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The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

S1E6
Rule Forever
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 30 min
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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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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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Create a New Society
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 26 min
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Free 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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Free 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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Control the Truth
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 27 min
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Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.

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

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Reign Through Terror
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 28 min
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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.

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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.

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Crush Your Rivals
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 27 min
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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.

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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.

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Seize Power
Air date: 09/Jul/2021 · Runtime: 31 min
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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.

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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.

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Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage
Self - Narrator (voice)
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Idi Amin
Idi Amin
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi
Self (archive footage)
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright
Self
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon
Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un
Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il
Self (archive footage)
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Asha Rangappa
Asha Rangappa
Self

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Sah Tantivaranyoo
Sah Tantivaranyoo
Art Direction
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Patricia Ambroise
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Alexis Arenas
Alexis Arenas
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David Ginsberg
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Jake Laufer
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Jonah Bekhor
Executive Producer
Jonas Bell Pasht
Jonas Bell Pasht
Executive Producer
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage
Executive Producer
Rodrigo Andrade
Rodrigo Andrade
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Bob Bronow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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Curt Cash
Supervising Sound Editor

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