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How to Become a Tyrant: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered Jul 9, 2021

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Seize Power

Jul 9, 2021

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.

S1·E2 Core

Crush Your Rivals

Jul 9, 2021

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.

S1·E3 Core

Reign Through Terror

Jul 9, 2021

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.

S1·E4 Core

Control the Truth

Jul 9, 2021

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

S1·E5 Mytharc

Create a New Society

Jul 9, 2021

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

S1·E6 Mytharc

Rule Forever

Jul 9, 2021

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.