Season 1: The Dictator's Playbook
Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
See how Idi Amin used military force to seize power and build a dictatorship in Uganda.
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Idi Amin
Learn how Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator of Spain.
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Francisco Franco
Watch Manuel Noriega rise to power in Panama, and witness his sudden downfall.
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Manuel Noriega
Meet the man who created fascism, an ideology that plunged most of Europe into darkness.
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Benito Mussolini
Learn how Saddam Hussein seized power in Iraq and maintained it for almost 30 years.
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Saddam Hussein
Kim Il Sung created a North Korean dictatorship that has lasted for three generations.
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