Documentary
Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market
| BBC| BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou, a 16…
- 2019
- Modern slavery
The real price of cheap medicines
| BNN VARA | It’s not only our clothes that are made cheaply in India and China: our drugs are produced there, too. In these countries, materials are cheaper and wages are low. In India, pharmaceutical giant Aurobindo manufactures cheap…
How the soy industry destroys the Amazon rainforest
| BNN VARA | The Amazon is on fire. The destruction of the largest tropical rainforest in the world is alarming. One of the most important drivers is the soy industry. As an agricultural superpower, the Netherlands is one of…
Top Rijkswaterstaat betrokken bij afvaldump
| BNN VARA | In ‘Gokken met Bagger’ onthulde Zembla vorig jaar misstanden met vervuilde grond en bagger die wordt gestort in voormalige zandwinningsplassen. Door de nadelige gevolgen voor het milieu, leidde de uitzending tot veel ophef bij omwonenden en…
Unmasking the Pyramid Kings: Crowd1 scam targets
| BBC | The best scams always come in disguise. And Crowd1 is the most audacious scam we’ve ever seen. It looks like a high-tech marketing business that’s making a ton of money for people across Africa. All you need…
- 2020
- Pyramid scheme
Cashing in
| Tomorrow Unlocked | Episode 1: ‘ATM Jackpotting’: Episode one describes how ATMs were manipulated during the Carbanak operation and explains how security researcher Barnaby Jack first became aware of ATM vulnerabilities in 2010. Episode 2: ‘Welcome to Taiwan’: The…
- 2019
- Money Laundering, Cybercrime
WannaCry, the Marcus Hutchins Story
| Tomorrow Unlocked | One day in May 2017, computers all around the world suddenly shut down. A malware called WannaCry asks for a ransom. The epidemic suddenly stops, because a young, British researcher finds a killswitch, by accident.
- 2019
- Cybercrime
The Fantasy Sports Gamble
| Frontline | An investigation with The New York Times into fantasy sports and online sports betting. With law enforcement cracking down, the film traces the growth of these booming businesses and goes inside their operations at home and abroad.
- 2016
- Cybercrime, Illegal betting
Taxodus – playing the global tax avoidance game
| VPRO | Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much? Gaining insight from international tax experts, this excellent documentary takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally….
- 2013
- Tax evasion, Business ethics
Whistleblowers – Alone against the system
| DW Documentary | Consternation, anger, a sense of powerlessness. A decision is made, and there’s no turning back. Your conscience begins to consider the possible consequences. It’s the start of a struggle against a system — and former allies…
- 2012
- Corruption, Business ethics