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Dictators鈥� Books

Almost every dictator, at one time or another, has put pen to paper.

• 21 mins

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.

• 49 mins

Hitler Part 15: Rise to Power, Unassailable F眉hrer

In mid-1930, under Hitler's command, Germany's armed forces expand at an alarming rate

• 51 mins

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.

• 59 mins

Hitler Part 17: Third Reich, Hitler鈥檚 Birthday, Poland鈥檚 Doom

As Hitler turns 50, the finishing touches are put to a shock pact with Stalin.

• 51 mins

General Videla Part 1: The Skinny One and the Witch

In 1925, Jorge Rafael Videla is born in Argentina: a country at a crossroads.

• 57 mins

General Videla Part 2: Mr Clean's Dirty War

Videla鈥檚 dirty war begins, but he employs elaborate means to gloss over the atrocities.

• 54 mins

General Videla Part 3: God, Football, the Falklands

Foreign journalists begin to uncover Videla's cruelty at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

• 53 mins

General Videla Part 4: Dictator in the Courtroom

A legal case is brought against Videla. Justice for his victims is finally within reach.

• 48 mins

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鈥�

• 51 mins

Hitler Part 19: Third Reich, Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill

Newly installed in Downing Street, Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives with a bang.

• 47 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 1: Italy's Fascist Godfather

As one of modern history's significant figures, we follow the early years of Il Duce.

• 57 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 2: The March on Rome

In a smoke-filled hall in Milan, Benito Mussolini declares the birth of a new movement.

• 59 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight

An Anglo-Irish aristocrat prepares to make an astonishing attempt on Mussolini鈥檚 life...

• 58 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 4: A Fine Bromance

As the World Cup comes to the Fatherland, Benito Mussolini prepares to meet Adolf Hitler鈥�

• 56 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 5: The Pact of Steel

With Hitler in the ascendancy, the Rome-Berlin Axis is upgraded to a military alliance.

• 52 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 6: The Road to Perdition

Benito Mussolini's son telephones his father with devastating news鈥�

• 56 mins

Benito Mussolini Part 7: Break for the Border鈥�

With the Axis collapsing, Mussolini makes for Switzerland - stowed away and in disguise.

• 60 mins

Hitler Part 20: Attack on Russia, War with America

After bailing out Mussolini in the Balkans, German troops march into the Soviet Union.

• 55 mins

General Tojo Part 1: The Young Samurai

The man they call 鈥淭he Razor鈥� begins his journey up the ladder of Japanese politics.

• 31 mins

General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China

Major General Hideki Tojo takes command of the secret police - the Kempeitai.

• 38 mins

General Tojo Part 3: Attack on Pearl Harbor

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War is underway.

• 34 mins

General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs

Tojo takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences.

• 38 mins

Manuel Noriega Part 1: The Narco Dictator

Noriega stamped his authority on Panama as its de facto military ruler in the 1980s.

• 60 mins

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鈥�

• 47 mins

Manuel Noriega Part 3: Bush Invades Panama

The Americans go all-in as agents attempt to penetrate the dictator鈥檚 inner circle.

• 52 mins

Lenin Part 1: The Revolution is Born

Long before his time in power, Lenin's life is something straight out of a spy thriller.

• 52 mins

Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run

As the First World War upends Russia, the Bolsheviks wait for their moment.

• 39 mins

Lenin Part 3: First Russia, Then the World...

Marooned in Switzerland, Lenin prepares for an incredible journey home, by land and sea.

• 51 mins

Lenin Part 4: Ghost at the Kremlin

With power in Bolshevik hands, state terror arrives in Russia. The Soviet Union is born.

• 51 mins