Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.
Sounds,·136 episodes
Hitler Part 11: Rise to Power, Hitler’s Secret Family
Hitler’s fame brings scrutiny & scandal and one personal tragedy could derail everything.
14 Aug 2024,·57 mins,·
Hitler Part 12: Rise to Power, Adolf Hitler Seizes Power
As Hitler-mania sweeps the land, the Nazis win an election landslide.
21 Aug 2024,·51 mins
Hitler Part 13: Rise to Power, The Reichstag Fire
Installed as Chancellor, Hitler briefs his army chiefs to prepare for war.
18 Sep 2024,·48 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.
02 Oct 2024,·49 mins
Hitler Part 15: Rise to Power, Unassailable Führer
In mid-1930, under Hitler's command, Germany's armed forces expand at an alarming rate
09 Oct 2024,·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.
16 Oct 2024,·59 mins
Hitler Part 17: Third Reich, Hitler’s Birthday, Poland’s Doom
As Hitler turns 50, the finishing touches are put to a shock pact with Stalin.
23 Oct 2024,·51 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…
27 Nov 2024,·51 mins,·
Hitler Part 19: Third Reich, Hitler vs Churchill
Newly installed in Downing Street, Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives with a bang.
04 Dec 2024,·47 mins,·
Hitler Part 20: Attack on Russia, War with America
After bailing out Mussolini in the Balkans, German troops march into the Soviet Union.
05 Feb 2025,·55 mins,·
Hitler Part 21: The Final Solution
It's 1942. WW2 is well underway but the Führer is not as untouchable as he used to be.
06 Sep 2023,·50 mins,·
Hitler Part 22: The Battle of Stalingrad
The Nazi war machine is blown apart in one of the pivotal battles of World War 2.
13 Sep 2023,·50 mins
Hitler Part 23: Mussolini’s Prison Break
In Italy, Il Duce is overthrown. Hitler stages a mission to rescue his fascist partner.
20 Sep 2023,·45 mins
Hitler Part 24: Operation Valkyrie, Blowing up the Führer
A group of generals attempts an audacious military coup.
27 Sep 2023,·50 mins,·
Hitler Part 25: The Bunker and the End
At the very end, Hitler conducts a macabre ritual of marriage, murder and suicide...
04 Oct 2023,·60 mins,·
With the Axis collapsing, Mussolini makes for Switzerland - stowed away and in disguise.
29 Jan 2025,·60 mins,·
Benito Mussolini's son telephones his father with devastating news…
22 Jan 2025,·56 mins
With Hitler in the ascendancy, the Rome-Berlin Axis is upgraded to a military alliance.
15 Jan 2025,·52 mins,·
As the World Cup comes to the Fatherland, Benito Mussolini prepares to meet Adolf Hitler…
08 Jan 2025,·56 mins,·
An Anglo-Irish aristocrat prepares to make an astonishing attempt on Mussolini’s life...
01 Jan 2025,·58 mins
In a smoke-filled hall in Milan, Benito Mussolini declares the birth of a new movement.
18 Dec 2024,·59 mins
As one of modern history's significant figures, we follow the early years of Il Duce.
11 Dec 2024,·57 mins,·
A legal case is brought against Videla. Justice for his victims is finally within reach.
20 Nov 2024,·48 mins,·
Foreign journalists begin to uncover Videla's cruelty at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
13 Nov 2024,·53 mins
Videla’s dirty war begins, but he employs elaborate means to gloss over the atrocities.
06 Nov 2024,·54 mins,·
In 1925, Jorge Rafael Videla is born in Argentina: a country at a crossroads.
30 Oct 2024,·57 mins
Almost every dictator, at one time or another, has put pen to paper.
25 Sep 2024,·21 mins
Pinochet consolidates control, creating a terrifying new secret police force...
11 Sep 2024,·45 mins
The touchpaper is lit. President Allende realises he’s been double-crossed...
04 Sep 2024,·36 mins,·
In September 1973, Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile following a coup d’état.
28 Aug 2024,·43 mins
