Evolution of Evil - Season 2

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.