How to Become a Tyrant (Season 1)

How to Become a Tyrant (2021) is a Netflix documentary series narrated by Peter Dinklage that you can watch online on iFILM. The show is structured as a step-by-step playbook — seize power, crush your rivals, control the economy, rewrite history — illustrated through the careers of six actual dictators: Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Gaddafi, and Fidel Castro.

Each episode picks apart one leader's specific methods: how they used propaganda to reshape public perception, how they built personality cults, how they kept inner circles in a state of permanent fear and competition. The archival footage is well-chosen, and the analysis stays clinical rather than sensationalist.

The satirical framing — presenting atrocities as a how-to guide — works precisely because it refuses to editorialize. You're left to draw your own conclusions, which turns out to be more unsettling than a conventional warning. Stream How to Become a Tyrant (2021) online on iFILM.