Reign Through Terror • 2021 • episode "S1E3" • How to Become a Tyrant

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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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How to Become a Tyrant • 2021 • 6 episodes •

Seize Power
30:34
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.

2021 • History

Crush Your Rivals
27:26
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.

2021 • History

Reign Through Terror
27:44
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.

2021 • History

Control the Truth
26:50
Control the Truth

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

2021 • History

Create a new Society
25:32
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.

2021 • History

Rule Forever
29:44
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.

2021 • History

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