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The Dictator's Playbook - Season 1
The series tells of more controversial historical events, with six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, to others who have caused a historic uproar everywhere. They are a group of historical people who formed the 20th century when they seized power and lost it. It is a series of events that present clear answers to every revealing image of brutality and power.
1971, Essex, England, UK
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 14, 2019
It's an important history to absorb.
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.
