How to Become a Tyrant

Greg Franklin

Director

Ron Myrick

Director

Harry Chaskin

Director

Emily Gerich

Director

Peter Dinklage

Self - Narrator

Iosif Stalin

Self - Dictator of USSR, 1929 - 1953

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Self - Professor of Political Science, New York University

Adolf Hitler

Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany

Waller Newell

Self - Professor of Political Science, Carleton University

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Self - Professor of History, New York University

Saddam Hussein

Self - Leader of Iraq

Zedong Mao

Self - Chairman of the Communist Party of China

Muammar Gaddafi

Self - Dictator of Libya, 1969 - 2011

Il-Sung Kim

Self - Eternal Leader

Idi Amin

Self - Dictator of Uganda, 1971 - 1979

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Founder, Communist Party in Russia

Fathali Moghaddam

Self - Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University

Andrew Sullivan

Self - Author and Political Commentator

Alastair Smith

Self - Professor of Political Science, New York University

Fidel Castro

Self - Leader of Cuba

Ayatollah Khomeini

Self - Supreme Leader, Iran 1979-1989