The Best World Leaders & Dictators Documentaries

World Affairs & Investigations - 61 free documentaries about world leaders & dictators.

Start with Bobi Wine: The People's President (114 min, National Geographic), then Duterte's Drug War (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS). All 61 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on world leaders & dictators is Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

• Bobi Wine: The People's President (114 min, National Geographic)
• Duterte's Drug War (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Putin and the Presidents (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Strangest Dictatorship You've Never Heard Of | Inside Turkmenistan (55 min, ENDEVR)
• Examining U.S.-Saudi Ties | The Crown Prince & the President (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Saudi Arabia, between repression and transformation (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Putin's Way (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Putin's Road to War (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Syria After Assad (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Taking the World Stage | North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator (44 min, National Geographic)
• Generation Putin (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Putin's Revenge, Part Two (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• How Yevgeny Prigozhin posed a serious threat to Putin’s authority (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Putin's War at Home (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Putin's Revenge, Part One (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Baltic states in Putin's shadow (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Trump, Putin & Co. - Deutsche Bank’s questionable clientele (42 min, DW Documentary)
• North Korea's Deadly Dictator (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• These Navy Seals Hunted Down A Ruthless Dictator (47 min, Wonder)
• Moldova: In the shadow of Putin’s war (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Navy Seals Capture Dictator's Gunboat (50 min, Wonder)
• Inside Myanmar Military Dictatorship | How Hope was Shattered (98 min, ENDEVR)
• Inside Saudi Arabia: The Fall Of The Crown Prince? (44 min, Real Stories)
• The turbulent life of Gaddafi's son: On the death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Syria - The rise and fall of the Assad regime (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside The Mind Of Vladimir Putin (104 min, Real Stories)
• Gaddafi's Elite Female Bodyguards (60 min, Real Stories)
• Did Putin Kill Prigozhin in a Plane Crash? Unraveling the Wagner Conspiracy (46 min, Real Stories)
• The Life Of Saddam Hussein: The History Of Iraq’s Most Notorious Dictator (65 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• How Assad Moved to Crush Syria’s Uprising | The Regime (22 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Putin vs. The Press (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Art of Diplomacy (9 min, The School of Life)
• Nicaragua - 45 years after the revolution, a return to dictatorship (86 min, DW Documentary)
• The Rise of Putin: From KGB Agent to Leader of Russia | Poison(s) (159 min, ENDEVR)
• Macron VS Putin: The Last Effort To Stop World War III (115 min, Real Stories)
• My Father, Idi Amin (50 min, Real Stories)
• Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change (VICE on HBO: Season 5, Episode 1) (55 min, VICE)
• How Abe Shinzo's Alleged Church Ties Marred His Legacy & Japan Politics | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Why Did The CIA Takedown Gaddafi? (48 min, Real Stories)
• The Rise Of Putin: Story of Russia's Most Powerful Man (59 min, Real Stories)
• Along Gaddafi's Road (84 min, Real Stories)
• Is It The End Of Modi Magic? What Does That Mean For India? | Insight (48 min, CNA Insider)
• Putin’s Wolves: The Rise of the Balkan Riders (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Syria's Detainee Files (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Osman Kavala: Imprisoned in Erdogan's Turkey (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Assad Clan: How They Robbed and Devastated Syria (53 min, ENDEVR)
• CIA's 30-Year Hunt for a Dictator: The Real Story of Gaddafi's Downfall (97 min, Real Crime)
• Lifting The Curtain: Inside Myanmar's Military Dictatorship (82 min, Real Stories)
• Batista VS. Castro: The Guerrilla War Against the Batista Regime (23 min, Our History)
• The Meteoric Rise Of General Franco | The Spanish Civil War Ep4 (52 min, Our History)
• Hardcore Mercenaries Take Down Brutal Dictator (43 min, Real Stories)
• What Happened To Gaddafi's Secret Mercenary Army (43 min, Wonder)
• Belarus: Inside Europe's last dictatorship (43 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Inside The Killing Fields: Pol Pot's Brutal Reign (51 min, Wonder)
• Why Russia gets more nationalistic under Putin (43 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Complete Story Of The Spanish Civil War And Franco’s Rise (26 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Erdogan's followers in The Netherlands - Docu - 2016 (48 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Spies isn’t everything: Putin’s global-chaos machine (25 min, The Economist)
• The Modi Raj 1: The chaiwallah's son (51 min, The Economist)
• Not so delightful: Erdogan arrests rival (26 min, The Economist)
• Peace from pieces: Syria after Assad (26 min, The Economist)

Top-Rated Books About World Leaders & Dictators

1. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Last Lion by William Manchester - View on Amazon
3. Leadership by Henry Kissinger - View on Amazon
4. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (4.5/5) - View on Amazon