1 Season
6 Episode
The Dictator's Playbook - Season 1 Episode 6 Idi Amin
A look at the techniques used by Idi Amin to rise from humble beginnings and build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Amin became an expert at deploying military force to achieve political power, a lesson he first learned from the British as a soldier in the colonial army. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, backed up by a vast police state, Idi Amin managed to rule Uganda for eight years.
- Year: 2018
- Country: Canada, United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: dictator, dictatorship
- Director: Mark Stevenson
- Cast: Tim Beckmann