How to Become a Tyrant

Greg Franklin

as Director

Ron Myrick

as Director

Harry Chaskin

as Director

Emily Gerich

as Director

Peter Dinklage

as Self - Narrator

Iosif Stalin

as Self - Dictator of USSR, 1929 - 1953

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

as Self - Professor of Political Science, New York University

Adolf Hitler

as Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany

Waller Newell

as Self - Professor of Political Science, Carleton University

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

as Self - Professor of History, New York University

Saddam Hussein

as Self - Leader of Iraq

Zedong Mao

as Self - Chairman of the Communist Party of China

Muammar Gaddafi

as Self - Dictator of Libya, 1969 - 2011

Il-Sung Kim

as Self - Eternal Leader

Idi Amin

as Self - Dictator of Uganda, 1971 - 1979

Vladimir Lenin

as Self - Founder, Communist Party in Russia

Fathali Moghaddam

as Self - Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University

Andrew Sullivan

as Self - Author and Political Commentator

Alastair Smith

as Self - Professor of Political Science, New York University

Fidel Castro

as Self - Leader of Cuba

Ayatollah Khomeini

as Self - Supreme Leader, Iran 1979-1989