A thriller is always a good option for a movie night at home, but when there is money involved, the plot can become particularly interesting. Guidedoc.tv invites you to view online the following three latest documentary films about financial scandals at the turn of the century.
You remember Wikileaks? Well, our first story is about the scandal triggered by the "snowden" of the European financial world, a man named Hervé Falciani. "Falciani's Tax Bomb", a documentary directed by Ben Lewis, tells us everything that happened in great detail. In 2006, while working for HSBC's Swiss headquarters, Falciani, a systems analyst, stole more than 15,000 files containing financial information from thousands of bank customers who had been committing tax frauds for years by repatriating capitals to tax havens overseas. From one moment to the next, everything came to light and shook not only the foundations of the European banking system but also the governments of the economic powers and the most important judicial tribunals of the continent. Falciani went from anonymity to be a controversial public figure, loved by some, hated by others. Along with experts, politicians and witnesses who were in the middle of this storm, Falciani himself tells us, staring at the camera, elegantly and with very little embarrassment, all about the tax bomb that he himself activated.
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The following documentary tells the story of Martin Amstrong, who gained worldwide recognition for accurately predicting several global economic crises and their respective recoveries over the past thirty years. Having once been a millionaire working as a financial consultant, he ended up in prison one day after a controversial accusation over the misuse of debt money. In "The Forecaster", a documentary directed in 2014 by Karin Steinberger and Marcus Vetter, Martin Armstrong has recently left prison and begins to give a lecture in Philadelphia, where he projects a steep decline in the US economy by 2015. While Amstrong focuses on the future, the directors of the film build a narrative in two times, where we alternate between various parts of the world - including Australia, Bangock, Newyork - and dates in the past to understand how this financial consultant managed to discover the rules of the global economic system.
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"The Carbon Crooks", our last title on the list, is a film that shows how efficient capitalism can be in privatizing even the elements of nature. This documentary directed by Tom Heinemman unravels the controversial market of carbon credits, an initiative that arose among the world powers to respond to the carbon emission limit imposed on the signatories of the Kyoto Protocol. The idea was that the free market could eventually curb the distribution of CO2 tons that European companies can emit into the atmosphere as the European factories would have to expend more money to do so. Hard to understand? Well, that's what documentaries like this are for. In fact, the most attractive thing about “The Carbon Crooks” is the narrative pedagogy that it uses to explain to the average viewer the smallest and elusive details of this market that has proven to be very inefficient in curbing global warming. The system has actually and been used instead to carry out frauds on a massive scale amounting to billions of Euros.
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