Infamous

   3.3  

Fascist dictator, Nazi leader, Mass murderer (70+ million deaths due to World War II), Motivational speaker, Inventor of the oft-copied 'Hitler mustache'.

Biopic of his downfall: Der Untergang
TV Biopic: Hitler: The Rise of Evil
What a Burn! The Great Dictator

Prelude's rating:

   3  

Second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, Himmler was in charge of the concentration camps, extermination camps, the killing squads, and the head of the SS.

Documentary: Hitler's Henchmen
Related Era: Schindler's List

   3.4  

Communist dictator, former ally of Hitler til he got back stabbed, and guilty of horrendous war crimes as well.

TV Biopic: Stalin
Related Era: Enemy at the Gates

Prelude's rating:

   3.7  

Chinese communist leader Mao himself claims to have ordered execution of over 700,000 people from 1949-53. US sources estimate closer to 1,000,000 deaths as a result of land reform, and another 800,000 killed in counter-revolutionary campaign.

But what's a million killed here and there, when Mao's Great Leap Forward helped make everything in US have a 'Made in China' label, and give billions of profits to US corporations?

   2.5  

If an idiot is in charge of the world's only superpower for 8 years, starting unmoral wars, bungling Katrina relief efforts, and nearly bankrupting the world economy, is he really to blame, or the people that elected him?

Biopic: Oliver Stone's W.
Documentary: The World According to Bush
Related: When the Levees Broke

Prelude's rating:

   3.3  

CIA-backed Freedom Fighter or International Terrorist? Or maybe just a convenient boogeyman that gets recycled each time something bad happens in the world?

Documentary: Power of Nightmares
Documentary: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Related: United 93

Prelude's rating:

   3.4  

Nazi minister of propaganda, chief architect of Nazi anti-semitic campaign.

Nazi Propaganda: Olympia: Festival of the Nation

   3.1  

The worst kind of Dictator (the Italian kind)

Prelude's rating:

   2.3  

The real mastermind behind the legacy that is Dubya's presidency.

Documentary: Why We Fight
Related: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Prelude's rating:

   4.8  

First (and second and hopefully last) person to have ever ordered a Nuclear Weapon to be dropped on a populated centre. Never forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

Documentary: Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan

Prelude's rating:

   2.8  

Gave the 1950s a healthy does of paranoia with the Red Scare witch hunt.

Related Movie: Good Night, and Good Luck.
Distant but still Related: The Crucible

Prelude's rating:

   2.1  

US-installed, then US-deposed Dictator. Small fry in the grand scheme of things.

Documentary: Why We Fight
Documentary: The World According to Bush
Loosely Related: Jarhead

Prelude's rating:

   3.2  

Liar, crook, and only US president forced to resign in shame (still unsure how Dubya avoided following the same path)

Biopic: Oliver Stone's Nixon

Prelude's rating:

   3  

Started the Islam Revolution in Iran. Great fun-filled decades of Middle East peace followed.

Documentary: The Power of Nightmares

Prelude's rating:

   1  

Chief architect and pimp of the awesome well-thought-out Iraqi quagmire; former pal of Saddam Hussein.

Documentary: The Power of Nightmares
Documentary: Fahrenheit 911

Prelude's rating:

   7.1  

Revolutionary, wiped out an entire Russian dynasty, started a horrendous social project known as 'Communism'

Related Era: Doctor Zhivago

Prelude's rating:

   3.8  

Former Ugandan dictator responsible for between 300,000 to 500,000 deaths mostly due to ethnic persecutions and extrajudicial killings.

Documentary: General Idi Amin Dada
Biopic: The Last King of Scotland

   2.2  

Yugoslavian dictator, guilty of numerous war crimes

Prelude's rating:

   2  

Leader of the Manson Family cult which slaughtered several people at their ranch, including Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate.

Biopic: The Manson Family

Prelude's rating:

   4.8  

Notorious mob boss, gangster, smuggler, bootlegger

Movie on his downfall: The Untouchables

Prelude's rating:

   2.5  

Serial Killer; Murdered aprox 30 to 100 young college women in the States.

Biopic: Ted Bundy

Prelude's rating:

   1.8  

Criminal and former head of the New York mafia.

Prelude's rating:

   5.7  

Pop Star, Child molester, pedophile, freak of nature, Black, White?

Documentary: Living with the Freak
Credits: Discography of the Freak

Prelude's rating:

   1  

Key architect of the Iraqi invasion, and former head of the World Bank. Seems like everything this Zionist touches turns to shit.

Documentary: No End in Sight
Documentary: Why We Fight
World Bank related: Zeitgeist: The Movie

Prelude's rating:

   8  

German director most (in)famous for her role in directing all the key Nazi Propaganda films, most notably The Triump of the Will.

Documentary: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of ...
Credits: Directed by Leni Riefenstahl

   2.5  

Wife murderer who got off free because of someone decided to play the 'race card' during his trial.

Credits: Movies starring O.J. Simpson
Documentary: Please God, there was AMPLE coverage of his trial. Please never ever make a documentary of it.

Prelude's rating:

   4  

Dictator and leader of the Cuban revolution. Worst crime is putting people into comas with his 5+ hr long speeches about the evils of capitalism.

Documentary: Fidel: The Untold Story
Documentary: Oliver Stone's Comandante

Prelude's rating:

   6.2  

Major Scientology advocate, helping all generations of Hollywood become brain-dead followers of the Ron Hubbard corporation of mind freaks.

Also much detested for ruining Oprah's couch.

Prelude's rating:

   2.2  

Destroyer of happy childhood memories, such as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, and god-forbid, Far Cry.

Uwe's goal is to replace this guy: Ed Wood

Prelude's rating:

   6.7  

Gifted with Directing; Gifted with young girls

Shameful Secret: Lolita
Inspired by his life: The Pianist
Credits: Films directed by Roman Polanski

Documentary: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Fun Fact: Roman is associated with many others on this list; as a Holocaust survivor (all the Nazis on this list), as well as fact that Charles Manson killed his wife, Sharon Tate.