The story of one of finance’s greatest formulas, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which won two of its developers the prestigious Nobel Prize. It explores how the hedge fund which they founded, Long Term Capital...
The World According to Monsanto is the fruit of French director Marie-Monique Robin’s extensive investigation into Monsanto, one of the world’s most powerful corporations. It is also one of the world’s most controversial corp...
Story of genius Wall Street algorithm builder and former high frequency trader Haim Bodek, who now warns against the system he was once part of. The Wall Street Code discusses the inner workings of modern day financial market...
The Super-Rich and Us investigates the impact of Britain’s billionaires on the nation’s economy. Home to the most billionaires per capita in the world, it attracts the super-rich due to its intricate tax loopholes that allow...
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire covers how the United Kingdom transitioned from a colonial force to a global financial powerhouse. Loosely based on the book Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson, it unvei...
The One Percent, directed by Johnson & Johnson heir Jamie Johnson, takes a look at the growing wealth gap between the rich elite and regular Americans. The film’s title refers to the top one percent of wealthy Ameri...
Filmmaker John Pilger investigates the effects of globalisation and demonstrates that the gap between rich and poor is now wider than ever before. The film focuses on the new rulers of the world: large multinational...
The Madoff Affair investigates the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff. For nearly half a century, he perpetrated one of the longest, largest, and most consequential financial frauds in history. Madoff began his infamous Ponzi sch...
Elizabeth Holmes was going to revolutionise the medical industry with Theranos, a company that specialised in the creation of miniature labs for blood testing. At its peak, it was valued at $9 billion. Holmes’ work drew...
In recent years, corporations have come to dominate the global economy. Their influence even stretches to international policy decisions. But how did they become what they are today? The Corporation follows the evolution of c...
In the midst of the global financial meltdown in 2008, a mysterious genius under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto presented the architecture for the perfect currency. Bitcoins cannot be forged, and can be transferred worldwide...
Historian Niall Ferguson explores the history and evolution of finance and money through the centuries, explaining its mechanics and how it has shaped our world today. In The Ascent of Money, Ferguson travels the globe from W...