When Robert Mugabe lost power as President of Zimbabwe in 2017, his legacy remained one of the most brutal modern-day dictatorships. His path of destruction brought economic devastation, famine, corruption and massacres.

Mugabe: Death of a Dictator uses stunning exclusive archive and expert interviews to chart Mugabe’s rise to terror, from his humble beginnings as a young freedom fighter inspired by Gandhi, who set out to free his people from white European oppression. This film invites you inside the mind of one of the most destructive modern villains and into the heart of his long and controversial reign.

We follow his journey to absolute rule, exploring how a greed for power, dependence on violence and growing paranoia poison the mind and create a dictator.