Real Dictators Episodes Episode guide
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Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution
As Mao's Cultural Revolution unfolds, his health deteriorates, and what of his legacy?
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Mao Zedong Part 2: The ‘Great Leap Forward’
As Mao clinches power, his Great Leap Forwards drives millions across China to the edge.
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Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel
In 1893, Mao is born. As a child on his family farm, he will consume books & ideas.
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Kim Jong-il Part 3: Nuclear Armed
Installed as leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il builds a far-reaching and tragic state.
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Kim Jong-il Part 2: Time to Make a Movie
After World War II, young Kim Jong-il and North Korea grow up side by side...
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Kim Jong-il Part 1: Birth of North Korea
We trace Kim Jong-il's rise to power and the founding of the state of North Korea.
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Julius Caesar Part 3: Murder in the Senate
Caesar's rule is popular. With the Ides of March approaching, conspirators hatch a plot.
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Julius Caesar Part 2: Rendezvous with Cleopatra
Caesar's epic invasion of Gaul eventually drives him into the arms of Queen Cleopatra.
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Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator
Politician, writer, warrior, & lover. Julius Caesar became the absolute ruler of Rome.
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Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks
Hitler invades Russia, and Stalin's legacy is bound up with a bloody fight to the death.
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Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator
Stalin thrives in the chaos post WW1 but his rise to leadership does not go unchallenged.
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Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber
How did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire plot a route to power?
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Introducing... The Curious History of Your Home
The Curious History of Your Home is available now on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sounds.
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Introducing... Hitler's Olympics
Search for Revisionist History on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sounds to discover the story of Hitler's Olympics.
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Introducing D-Day: The Tide Turns
D-Day: The Tide Turns follows the real people involved in the Normandy Landings.
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Herod the Great Part 2: Murders in the Family
Herod takes Jerusalem, murders family members, and what of his acts in the Nativity?
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Herod the Great Part 1: Ruler of Galilee
King Herod - the original pantomime villain. Who really was this iconic figure?
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Genghis Khan Part 2: Rise of the Mongols
How does Genghis Khan conquer an empire bigger than any before in recorded history?
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Genghis Khan Part 1: Underdog to Emperor
A terror to his foes, Genghis Khan will lead the Mongol peoples far beyond their borders.
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General Videla Part 4: Dictator in the Courtroom
A legal case is brought against Videla. Justice for his victims is finally within reach.
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General Videla Part 3: God, Football, the Falklands
Foreign journalists begin to uncover Videla's cruelty at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
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General Videla Part 2: Mr Clean's Dirty War
Videla’s dirty war begins, but he employs elaborate means to gloss over the atrocities.
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General Videla Part 1: The Skinny One and the Witch
In 1925, Jorge Rafael Videla is born in Argentina: a country at a crossroads.
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Francisco MacÃas Nguema Part Two: Hiding in the Jungle with all the Money.
MacÃas purges the professional class; his reign worsens when he declares himself God.
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Francisco MacÃas Nguema Part 1: The Forgotten Dictator
MacÃas' rule in Equatorial Guinea is a blood-curdling story of opportunism & paranoia.
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Enver Hoxha Part 2: Stalin’s Shadow, Europe’s North Korea
Isolated Albania sinks into an economic mire while Hoxha's health fades. What will give?
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Enver Hoxha Part 1: The Albanian School Teacher
Enver Hoxha ran Albania as an extraordinarily repressive Stalinist dictatorship
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Dictators’ Books
Almost every dictator, at one time or another, has put pen to paper.
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Benito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight
An Anglo-Irish aristocrat prepares to make an astonishing attempt on Mussolini’s life...
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Benito Mussolini Part 2: The March on Rome
In a smoke-filled hall in Milan, Benito Mussolini declares the birth of a new movement.