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Pinochet Part 3: Searching for the Disappeared
Pinochet consolidates control, creating a terrifying new secret police force...
Hitler Part 13: Rise to Power, The Reichstag Fire
Installed as Chancellor, Hitler briefs his army chiefs to prepare for war.
Dictators’ Books
Almost every dictator, at one time or another, has put pen to paper.
Hitler Part 14: Rise to Power, Night of the Long Knives
To ward off the Western Allies, Hitler takes a trip to Venice to visit Mussolini.
Hitler Part 15: Rise to Power, Unassailable Führer
In mid-1930, under Hitler's command, 's armed forces expand at an alarming rate
Hitler Part 16: Rise to Power, The Gathering Storm...
Hitler expands the Third Reich, while the Nazis stir up an orgy of anti-Jewish violence.
Hitler Part 17: Third Reich, Hitler’s Birthday, Poland’s Doom
As Hitler turns 50, the finishing touches are put to a shock pact with Stalin.
General Videla Part 1: The Skinny One and the Witch
In 1925, Jorge Rafael Videla is born in Argentina: a country at a crossroads.
General Videla Part 2: Mr Clean's Dirty War
Videla’s dirty war begins, but he employs elaborate means to gloss over the atrocities.
General Videla Part 3: God, Football, the Falklands
Foreign journalists begin to uncover Videla's cruelty at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
General Videla Part 4: Dictator in the Courtroom
A legal case is brought against Videla. Justice for his victims is finally within reach.
Hitler Part 18: Third Reich, A Brush with Death...
As World War Two begins, a lone clockmaker decides to bump off Hitler once and for all…
Hitler Part 19: Third Reich, Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill
Newly installed in Downing Street, Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives with a bang.
Benito Mussolini Part 1: Italy's Fascist Godfather
As one of modern history's significant figures, we follow the early years of Il Duce.
Benito Mussolini Part 2: The March on Rome
In a smoke-filled hall in Milan, Benito Mussolini declares the birth of a new movement.
Benito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight
An Anglo-Irish aristocrat prepares to make an astonishing attempt on Mussolini’s life...
Benito Mussolini Part 4: A Fine Bromance
As the World Cup comes to the Fatherland, Benito Mussolini prepares to meet Adolf Hitler…
Benito Mussolini Part 5: The Pact of Steel
With Hitler in the ascendancy, the Rome-Berlin Axis is upgraded to a military alliance.
Benito Mussolini Part 6: The Road to Perdition
Benito Mussolini's son telephones his father with devastating news…
Benito Mussolini Part 7: Break for the Border…
With the Axis collapsing, Mussolini makes for Switzerland - stowed away and in disguise.
Hitler Part 20: Attack on Russia, War with America
After bailing out Mussolini in the Balkans, German troops march into the Soviet Union.
General Tojo Part 1: The Young Samurai
The man they call “The Razor” begins his journey up the ladder of Japanese politics.
General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China
Major General Hideki Tojo takes command of the secret police - the Kempeitai.
General Tojo Part 3: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War is underway.
General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs
Tojo takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences.
Manuel Noriega Part 1: The Narco Dictator
Noriega stamped his authority on Panama as its de facto military ruler in the 1980s.
Manuel Noriega Part 2: A Tale of Two Spy Chiefs
Noriega finds himself on a collision course with future US president George H.W. Bush…
Manuel Noriega Part 3: Bush Invades Panama
The Americans go all-in as agents attempt to penetrate the dictator’s inner circle.
Lenin Part 1: The Revolution is Born
Long before his time in power, Lenin's life is something straight out of a spy thriller.
Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run
As the First World War upends Russia, the Bolsheviks wait for their moment.
Lenin Part 3: First Russia, Then the World...
Marooned in Switzerland, Lenin prepares for an incredible journey home, by land and sea.
