List of episodes of the series «How to Become a Tyrant»

  • Seasons count: 1
  • Episodes count: 6
  • Total viewing time: 2 h. 49 m.
Seize Power
Release date: 7/9/2021

Seize Power

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 1
  • Episode duration: 31 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Crush Your Rivals
Release date: 7/9/2021

Crush Your Rivals

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 2
  • Episode duration: 27 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Reign Through Terror
Release date: 7/9/2021

Reign Through Terror

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 3
  • Episode duration: 28 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.
Control the Truth
Release date: 7/9/2021

Control the Truth

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 4
  • Episode duration: 27 min.
  • Episode description:
    Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
Create a New Society
Release date: 7/9/2021

Create a New Society

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 5
  • Episode duration: 26 min.
  • Episode description:
    Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
Rule Forever
Release date: 7/9/2021

Rule Forever

  • User score: 7
  • Episode number: 6
  • Episode duration: 30 min.
  • Episode description:
    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.