Movie or Documentary
South Seas Bubble of 1720: the First Major Manipulation of Financial Markets
| Video Economist| The first major manipulation of financial markets. Today we look at the South Seas bubble of 1720. The South Sea Company was a British investment company that collapsed in 1720 due to a speculative bubble, the South…
Enron – The Biggest Fraud in History
| ColdFusion| In this video, ColdFusion will take you into the story of one of the biggest frauds in history, Enron, where over 60 billion dollars were scammed. The Enron scandal was a series of events that culminated in the…
- 2019
- Business ethics, Financial fraud, Scam
The story of a German Conman
| DW | It was one of the biggest white-collar scams in German history. In the 1990s, Manfred Schmider and his company FlowTex took investors for more than two billion euros. Today, the conman himself can’t believe how easy it…
- 2020
- Financial fraud, Scam
How Stealing and Selling Children Became a Business in South Sudan
| VICE | South Sudan’s civil war flooded the nation with weapons, those weapons are now used for child abduction.
How Sergei Magnitsky Uncovered a $230 Million Tax Fraud
| VICE News | Sergei Magnitsky was a tax advisor tasked with investigating an audacious crime of fraud in Russia. What he discovered went all the way to the highest levels of the Kremlin and implicated police and officials in…
- 2021
- Financial fraud, Corruption
VW and dieselgate – What really happened
| DW Documentary | It’s a case involving one of the worst examples of fraud in the history of German industry. Who knew about the manipulation of VW’s diesel emissions, and just as importantly – when? In September 2015 US…
- 2022
- Business ethics
Theranos – Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster
| ColdFusion | Theranos, what seemed like one of the most ground breaking companies of the 21st century ended up being one of Silicon Valley’s greatest failures. How did Elizabeth Holmes manage to fool the world? In this video we…
- 2019
- Science fraud
Congo’s Missing Millions
| BBC | Unlocking secrets from Africa’s biggest banking data leak, BBC Africa Eye reveals how millions of dollars of public funds ended up in the private bank accounts of businesses based in Democratic Republic of Congo and owned by…
- 2021
- Business ethics, Corruption
Organized crime in Montenegro: Sweeping up corruption
| DW Documentary | For decades, Montenegro has been unable to get organized crime under control. Rampant corruption is hindering development in the country, which is a candidate for EU membership. Now, Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic is attempting a political…
- 2021
- Corruption
How The Biggest Banks Get Away With Fraud
| ColdFusion | The mechanics of the fraud: how leveraged / inverse ETPs are constructed mathematically to defraud investors, many of which may not even know these are in their accounts. An extreme number of reverse splits…. why would the…
- 2021
- Financial fraud