The Dictator's Playbook
2018
📺 1 Season
🎬 6 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 54 min/ep
Documentary
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.
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Seasons
Season 1
A look at the methods used by Kim il Sung to transform North Korea into the most controlled society on Earth. After taking power in 1950, Kim's regime attempted to shape every aspect of its citizens' lives, down to their very perception of reality. Today, his grandson Kim Jung Un maintains the family tradition of wielding absolute power and brainwashing citizens to believe that the Kims are gods, and that they live in a paradise on Earth.
Crew
Director
Mark Stevenson
Writer
Robert Eaton, Greg Beer, Christopher Blow
Producer
Matt Booi, Patrick Cameron, Michael Rosenfeld
Network
PBS
Production
Cream Productions, Twin Cities Public Television
Keywords
dictatordictatorship