How to Become a Tyrant ambient background
CinebyCineby
How to Become a Tyrant backdrop

How to Become a Tyrant

How to Become a Tyrant
★ 7.3/10•2021•30m•TV-MA•Documentary•War & Politics
Similars

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 9, 2021

Episodes

Episode 1 - Seize PowerE131m

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.

Jul 9, 2021

Episode 2 - Crush Your RivalsE227m

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.

Jul 9, 2021

Episode 3 - Reign Through TerrorE328m

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.

Jul 9, 2021

Episode 4 - Control the TruthE427m

Control the Truth

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

Jul 9, 2021

Episode 5 - Create a New SocietyE526m

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.

Jul 9, 2021

Episode 6 - Rule ForeverE630m

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.

Jul 9, 2021

Actors

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Self - Narrator (voice)

Recommendations

Hitler's Circle of Evil
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
The Vietnam War
World War II with Tom Hanks
History 101
Last Chance U
World War II: From the Frontlines
Drug Lords
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
Trust Me: The False Prophet
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Visible: Out on Television
The New York Times Presents
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
I AM A KILLER
MOURINHO
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Mind Field

Similars

The voices of Støjberg
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
First Five
Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow
The Dictator's Playbook
DEADLOCK
Evolution of Evil
Inside North Korea's Dynasty
Libération(s), dans la joie et la douleur
Emmanuel, un homme d'affaire à l'Élysée
In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
War Against Humanity
The Zelensky Story
D-Day: The Total Story
The 2000's: The Decade We Saw It All
The King with Two Faces
The Sorrow and the Pity
ETA, el final del silencio
Slow Burn
Mussolini: The First Fascist