The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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Netflix
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- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes aired
- 6
- Latest aired
- S01E01
- Total runtime
- 2h 49min
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S01E01 Seize Power
July 9 · 31min find the promo
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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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S01E02 Crush Your Rivals
July 9 · 27min find the promo
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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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S01E03 Reign Through Terror
July 9 · 28min find the promo
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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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S01E04 Control the Truth
July 9 · 27min find the promo
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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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S01E05 Create a New Society
July 9 · 26min find the promo
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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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S01E06 Rule Forever
July 9 · 30min find the promo
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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.