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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005
Documentary
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Enron's executives and their fake profits
- Traders and the California blackouts
- Employees who lost their savings
Good for you if
- you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
- you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
- you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.
Bad for you if
- you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
- you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.
About: greed · deception · money
Inside Job 2010
Documentary
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
The sides of Inside Job
- The 2008 financial crisis, from Iceland to Wall Street
- Bankers, regulators and economists in front of the camera
- Professors who can't answer a simple question
Good for you if
- you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.
- you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.
- you like interviews where the person in the chair starts to squirm.
Bad for you if
- you don't want to follow derivatives and credit default swaps for an evening.
- you want a reassuring ending. Here almost nobody goes to jail.
About: greed · corruption · the economy
Betting on Zero 2016
Documentary
Controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is on a crusade to expose global nutritional giant Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history while Herbalife execs claim Ackman is a market manipulator out to bankrupt them and make a killing off his billion dollar short.
The sides of Betting on Zero
- Bill Ackman's billion dollar bet against Herbalife
- Families who lost their savings
- A fight over what a pyramid scheme is
Good for you if
- you like watching billionaires fight over money and influence.
- you want the real Wall Street battle over Herbalife.
- you like a bet where every share price move counts.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch families losing everything they saved.
- you want something light, and this stays serious.
About: greed · the American dream · finance
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley 2019
Documentary
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
The sides of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
- Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
- A blood test machine that never worked
- A ten billion dollar company that collapsed
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Theranos and its blood test.
- you like watching hype and investors carry a company to ten billion dollars.
- you want to understand how Elizabeth Holmes convinced so many people.
Bad for you if
- you need more than interviews and boardroom footage.
- you want surprises, and you already know how Theranos ended.
About: fraud · ambition · hype
The Corporation 2003
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
The sides of The Corporation
- The corporation treated as a legal person
- A psychiatric checklist applied to big business
- Interviews with CEOs, activists and economists
Good for you if
- you want to understand how companies came to hold so much power.
- you like real case studies more than abstract theory.
- you enjoy a long argument built from dozens of interviews.
Bad for you if
- nearly two and a half hours of documentary is too much for you.
- you want striking images, and this is built from interviews and archive footage.
About: capitalism · democracy · responsibility
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing 2022
Documentary
Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.
The sides of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Two 737 MAX crashes months apart
- Families of the victims
- Engineers and pilots on the record
Good for you if
- you want to understand what led to two real crashes.
- you like seeing how money can win over safety inside a company.
- you want the technical failures explained clearly.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grieving families talk about the people they lost.
- you need some hope by the end. The families are still waiting for justice.
About: profit · accountability · grief

Zeitgeist: Addendum 2008
Documentary
Director Peter Joseph examines examples of economic subjugation and offers solutions based on alignment with nature.
The sides of Zeitgeist: Addendum
- The debt system behind modern money
- Economic hit men in Latin America
- A plan for an economy without money
Good for you if
- you like asking who really controls money and banks.
- you want to hear John Perkins tell how he worked as an economic hit man.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a two-hour call to change the whole world.
- you need every claim to hold up, and this one draws on conspiracy theories.
About: money · power · debt · utopia
The Dissident 2020
Documentary
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
The sides of The Dissident
- A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
- His fiancée waiting outside
- Dissidents fighting a state online
Good for you if
- you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
- you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
- you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
- you can't hear the details of a killing described.
About: free speech · surveillance · impunity
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 2021
Documentary
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.
The sides of Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
- Rick Singer and his rich clients
- Fake athletes and rigged test scores
- Reenactments of real wiretapped calls
Good for you if
- you like a true scandal told through the real FBI wiretaps.
- you want to see how money buys a way into elite colleges.
- you like a con built on bribes and fake sports profiles.
Bad for you if
- you need chases and confrontations to stay hooked.
- you need suspense, and you already know how the 2019 case ended.
About: privilege · fraud · ambition
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King 2022
Documentary
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there's more to his death than meets the eye.
The sides of Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King
- A crypto exchange founder dead at thirty
- Investors who lost their savings
- Online sleuths chasing the missing money
Good for you if
- you like a question that won't go away: is the founder really dead.
- you like following where hundreds of millions in crypto went.
- you want the real story of QuadrigaCX told by the people who lost money.
Bad for you if
- you need a clear answer by the end.
- you want a thriller, not interviews and screens full of transactions.
About: greed · trust · money
Requiem for the American Dream 2015
Documentary
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
The sides of Requiem for the American Dream
- Noam Chomsky in long interviews
- Ten principles of wealth and power
- The decline of the American middle class
Good for you if
- you want to understand how money shapes American politics.
- you like Chomsky looking back on decades of activism.
- you like a dense argument told plainly in seventy-three minutes.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope when a film looks at democracy.
- you want images, not one man talking.
About: inequality · democracy · wealth
Collective 2019
Documentary
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
The sides of Collective
- A nightclub fire in Bucharest
- Sports journalists investigating hospitals
- A new health minister inside the system
Good for you if
- you want a true investigation filmed as it happens.
- you like seeing how corruption reaches from hospitals to ministers.
- you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Romanian.
- you can't watch burn victims and grieving families on screen.
About: corruption · journalism · grief · public health
La gran apuesta 2015
Película
Cuando cuatro tipos fuera del sistema descubren que los grandes bancos, los medios de comunicación y el gobierno se niegan a reconocer el colapso de la economía, tienen una idea: 'La Gran Apuesta'… pero sus inversiones de riesgo les conducen al lado oscuro de la banca moderna, donde deben poner en duda todo y a todos...
Las caras de La gran apuesta
- Marginados que vieron venir la crisis de 2008
- Famosos que explican las finanzas
- Apostar contra la economía
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una comedia rápida y furiosa sobre un desastre real.
- te gustan los personajes afilados y cínicos.
- te gusta entender cómo pasó algo de verdad.
Mala para ti si
- te aburren los bancos y las hipotecas. Toda la película trata de dinero.
- necesitas algo de esperanza. Los banqueros salen impunes y millones de personas pierden su casa.
Temas: la codicia · la verdad · los sistemas
The Great Hack 2019
Documentary
Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.
The sides of The Great Hack
- Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data
- A former insider who turns whistleblower
- Brexit and the 2016 US election
Good for you if
- you want to understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- you like stories about who controls elections and how.
- you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope, not a worrying look at your own data.
- you lose track when a film follows Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll and a journalist all at once.
About: privacy · democracy · manipulation

The Yes Men Fix the World 2009
Documentary
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
The sides of The Yes Men Fix the World
- A fake Dow Chemical spokesman on the BBC
- Two pranksters in cheap suits
- Hoaxes at big business conferences
Good for you if
- you like executives applauding absurd ideas with a straight face.
- you like seeing big corporations caught off guard.
- you like real pranks pulled on real conferences and newsrooms.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at films with a message to sell.
- you can't laugh at a hoax built on the Bhopal disaster.
About: activism · corporate power · truth
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story 2022
Documentary
Jimmy Savile was one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an investigation prompted more than 450 horrific allegations of sexual assault and abuse, with victims as young as 5.
The sides of Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
- A TV star loved by the British public
- Archive footage of his decades of fame
- Survivors of his abuse
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.
- you want to see how fame and institutions protected Jimmy Savile.
- you want to know how this stayed hidden for so long.
Bad for you if
- you can't take accounts of child sexual abuse.
- you need some justice at the end, and he died before any trial.
About: abuse of power · silence · celebrity
Dopesick 2021
Series
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
The sides of Dopesick
- A drug company selling OxyContin
- A small-town doctor in a mining community
- Investigators chasing the company
Good for you if
- you want to understand how the opioid epidemic began.
- you like seeing how a pharmaceutical company and its owners shaped a whole crisis.
- you like Michael Keaton as a trusting country doctor.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction and overdoses on screen.
- you lose track when a story jumps between years and several storylines.
About: addiction · greed · justice
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich 2020
Documentary
Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.
The sides of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
- Survivors telling their own stories
- A billionaire's homes in Palm Beach and New York
- A 2008 plea deal and its consequences
Good for you if
- you want to hear the survivors in their own words.
- you want to understand how money and connections protected one man for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear accounts of the sexual abuse of teenage girls.
- you need some hope, and justice here comes late and incomplete.
About: abuse of power · justice · survivors
Deep Web 2015
Documentary
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. As the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.
The sides of Deep Web
- Silk Road, an online drug market
- Ross Ulbricht and his family
- Keanu Reeves narrating
Good for you if
- you like the story of Silk Road and Dread Pirate Roberts.
- you want the Ross Ulbricht case told with his family close by.
- you care about who controls the internet and your privacy.
Bad for you if
- you need striking images. Much of it is screens, chat logs and interviews.
- you roll your eyes at a heartfelt plea for digital freedom.
About: privacy · freedom · justice
Deliver Us from Evil 2006
Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
The sides of Deliver Us from Evil
- A priest who abused children for decades
- A Church that moved him from parish to parish
- Victims and their families speaking out
Good for you if
- you want survivors and their families to be heard.
- you want to understand how one priest escaped justice for so long.
- you want to see how an institution protected itself.
Bad for you if
- you can't take child abuse described in detail.
- you need a story that ends with justice served.
About: betrayal · faith · accountability