Evolution of Evil - Episode Guide

Adolf Hitler builds a fringe political group into the Nazi Party; Hitler's men attempt a coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923.

Hitler is arrested for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch; Hitler begins writing his political manifesto, "Mein Kampf," while serving time in prison.

Hitler blames unemployment and other economic maladies caused by the Great Depression on Germany's democratic Weimar government.

Hitler wins the hearts and minds of Germans as he plots to rid his country of the Jews; over 1,000 synagogues were burned in the November 1938 attacks known as Kristallnacht.

Hitler summons his generals and reveals his plans to annex Austria and the German-speaking lands in Czechoslovakia.

The German people begin to see through the facade of the Nazi propaganda machine as the war changes course in 1941.

Hitler and the Nazi Party groom the German people into thinking the genocide of Jewish people was a morally correct decision.

Numerous defeats hurt Hitler's image with the German people; two army colonels plot to assassinate Hitler.

Allied armies advance on Berlin in January 1945; the war ends shortly after Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945.

In the closing months of the war, the Allies discover the true scale of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.

The story of one of the world's longest-serving dictators, Muammar Gaddafi, and his 42-year reign of terror at home in Libya and around the world until his ouster in 2011. His actions are so increasingly insane that President Reagan dubs him The Mad Dog of the Middle East. 

Adolf Hitler murders six million Jews and invades peaceful countries brutally killing anyone in his way. But what terrible forces turns a high school dropout into the most evil dictator the world has ever seen?

Iron-fisted ruler Josef Stalin leads the Soviet Union for 30 years, eliminating anyone who stands in his way.

Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo authorizes the attack on Pearl Harbor and the torture of thousands of prisoners of war during World War II.

For 30 years, Mao Zedong, Supreme Leader of Communist China, harbored a reign of cruelty and hatred.

The story of the ruler of Iraq for 23 years, Saddam Hussein, who viciously ran his country with an utter contempt for humanity.

This is the story of the rise and fall of the man who became a role model to Hitler and some of history's worst dictators of the twentieth century and beyond - Benito Mussolini.

See how Osama bin Laden's journey unfolds; from his roots as a privileged young Saudi boy to becoming the formidable leader of al-Qaeda, and his lifetime commitment to violent jihad against the West, which results in the horrific 9/11 attacks in 2001.

North Korea's evil dictator, Kim Jong-il, ruled his country for 17 years without mercy. While personally enriching himself, he let his people starve to death and threatened to bring the world to the brink of a third world war.

Francois Duvalier trained as a medical doctor, but his healing touch was lost as he became the ruthless dictator 'Papa Doc'. The tools of his tyranny were violence and Voodoo. He killed 30,000 people, and kept a nation in fear of his mystical powers.