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