Season 1: The Dictator's Playbook
Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.

Learn how Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator of Spain.
Francisco Franco

Meet the man who created fascism, an ideology that plunged most of Europe into darkness.