Episode 1
Seize Power
Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one...
Episode 2
Crush Your Rivals
You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better o...
Episode 3
Reign Through Terror
When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he...
Episode 4
Control the Truth
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certa...
Episode 5
Create a New Society
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go...
Episode 6
Rule Forever
Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling...