To Kill a Dictator - 1 ª Season

In the 1960s Cold War, CIA plots against Cuba's Castro intensify after his revolution. Despite collaborating with mobsters and rebels on various schemes, all attempts fail. As Soviet ties strengthen, assassination efforts grow desperate.

From pre-war Germany through Operation Barbarossa, various groups attempt to assassinate Hitler. After multiple failed attempts, Operation Valkyrie brings conspirators to the Wolf's Den for a crucial bombing plot.

Although Joseph Stalin was notoriously paranoid, there's little doubt that many wanted him dead. Today, the number of attempts made on the dictator's life remain unclear. But a scuffle in the street and the assassination of one of Stalin's colleagues puts the dictator on high alert, and he closes the NKVD iron fist of protection. As purges and assassinations leave millions of bodies in their wake, records show that Stalin's greatest adversary, under the sign of the swastika, has the leader right in his crosshairs. Were Nazi commandos on site in Tehran for a fateful conference between Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill? The testimony of a trained assassin leaves historians wondering. Years later, a mysterious prisoner of war gets recruited and makes a daring sprint towards Moscow. After the war, Stalin's suspicions are cast on those hired to keep his people healthy. After so many failed assassination attempts, was the last plot against Stalin's life successful? As he succumbs to illness at 74 years old, is his death less than natural?

Just as Korea gains its freedom after decades under Japanese occupation, Kim Il Sung's rise to power once again tips the scales dragging a country divided back into warfare. Kim's reputation as a fierce warrior, grants him the role of leader in North Korea's Soviet-led puppet government. His rapid rise in rank rings warning bells for anti-communist countries world-wide. But it's Korea's Civil War, North vs South, that fuel's Kim's reign of terror. Both sides scheme to eliminate the other. But after the Dictator's failed attempt on the life of the South Korean leader, the South's Central Intelligence Agency devises an assassination plot of cinematic proportions. One that will remain a closely guarded secret for nearly two decades. Why did South Korean Intelligence select civilians off the streets to be banded together on a remote island and trained as the would-be-assassins of the Dictator in the North? Classified Unit 684 was deemed 'The Decapitation Unit,' but were they ever deployed? What fates befell those trained killers? And who ultimately buried the story in order to protect the power of the South Korean President?

They called him, 'El Hefe' because he ruled the Dominican with an iron fist during what became 'The Bloodiest Era' in Latin America history. Over 30 years, Rafael Trujillo spearheads massacres, tortures, imprisons, and murders anyone who dares to voice dissent. In response, the Dominican Liberation Movement organises military operations, arriving by land and sea to take out the fearsome regime. A band of sisters, slighted by Trujillo, organises a movement in honour of the fallen. At a cattle fair, they plan fire and fury, but El Jefe escapes unscathed. The American government considers its next move, as horrors unfold at La Cuarenta, Trujillo's den of torture. But, it's Trujillo's attempt against another world leader that finally prompts plans for an international coup. Why does the American government under Eisenhower back the rebels, only to withdraw its support under Kennedy? And, as El Hefe's car is ambushed on a dirt road, who are the men who finally step up to sow the bloody seeds of revolution?