Every season of How to Become a Tyrant ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of How to Become a Tyrant!

Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.

Seize Power

You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.

Crush Your Rivals

When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.

Reign Through Terror

Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.

Control the Truth

Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.

Create a New Society

Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.

Rule Forever

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

The Best Seasons of How to Become a Tyrant

The Best Seasons of How to Become a Tyrant

Season 1