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The Dictator's Playbook - Season 1
It is a series of historical and documentary events that speak of six tyrants, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, who formed the twentieth century. Here we present a different realistic view of these dictators who took power and lost it, and the lives they lived in all its details. It is a series of answers to many of the world's questions about brutality and power.
September 18, 1968 in Pyongyang, North Korea
January 11, 2019
It's an absorbing, richly documented work. If the series has a flaw, it's the frequency of the academic commentaries -- messages that expend a good deal of time in emphatic explanations of the obvious.
January 10, 2019
[It] might look like history, with much of the imagery in grainy black and white. But this PBS documentary series also provides modern-day resonance.
January 14, 2019
It's an important history to absorb.