Mao (Episode 3)

Mao Zedong was Supreme Leader of China for almost 3 decades. His merciless policies made him one of the most ruthless tyrants of the 20^th Century – a sadist intoxicated by others’ pain; a dictator convinced that politics had to be violent; and a man who presided over the deaths of possibly more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. This is the story of a brutal autocrat, through his reign of cruelty and revenge, to a position of authority so great, his personality cult remains to this day.

The vicious tyrant Francois ‘Papa Doc” Duvalier ruthlessly dominated Haiti using violence and Voodoo. Rising from a humble country doctor, he made himself into a figure so terrifying to his people…

For 30 years Joseph Stalin “the man of steel” ruthlessly dominated the Soviet Union. Born into poverty on the fringes of the Czarist Russian Empire, he became a gangster and then a revolutionary. His…

This film explores how a privileged young Saudi boy born in the 1950s, becomes the founder and leader of al-Qaeda, an idol and motivator to militant Muslims around the world, and a terrorist…

He’s a man born into power… the heart of the axis of evil. He tortures and executes hundreds of thousands of his own people with his finger held closely to the button. This is the story of a man with…

This is the story Saddam Hussein, a man thought to be more sadistic than Hitler, and how he rules Iraq with an utter contempt for humanity for 23 years. This historical documentary looks at how the…

Mao Zedong was Supreme Leader of China for almost 3 decades. His merciless policies made him one of the most ruthless tyrants of the 20th Century – a sadist intoxicated by others’ pain; a dictator…

Adolf Hitler is the very personification of evil. He murders six million Jews. Hundreds of thousands of Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and people with mental and physical disabilities. …

Hideki Tojo is Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944. An admirer of Adolf Hitler, he rises to the rank of General and breaks into national politics in 1940. As Prime Minister in 1941, he gives…

His speeches leave Italy bewitched. But behind all Benito Mussolini’s bluster and posturing lies a dark heart of violence and brutality. This is the story of Il Duce, the Boss and how a young…

Throughout history, there have been many viciously cruel dictators, but few as deranged as Muammar Gaddafi -the man President Reagan dubs The Mad Dog of the Middle East. For over 40 years…