Secret Sex Lives of Tyrants
6 x 60 minutes for Hearst Networks UK, Sphere Abacus (2025)
The list of dictators and tyrants is long and littered with innumerable crimes and atrocities. But what do the secret sex lives of these destructive men reveal about themselves? Secret Sex Lives of Tyrants utilises vast archival resources and expert interviews with psychologists, historians, and sociologists to uncover the sexual proclivities and perversions of history’s most infamous dictators. Covering every rumour, theory, scrawled note, and historical account, the series dives deep into their twisted childhoods, derailed ambitions, hidden mistresses, and sexual kinks to reveal new insights into the psyche of tyrants through world history, and ultimately uncover how their secret sex lives influenced their world, and the world we live in today.