Second Act

Second Act 2018

6.34

Value Shop assistant manager Maya Vargas wants only one thing for her 43rd birthday -- a promotion. While her résumé may not scream upper management, her track record certainly does; she is an innovator who listens to her customers and delivers results. When she loses the job to a college-educated candidate, Maya sets out to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts -- and it's never too late for a second act.

2018

Fair Play

Fair Play 2023

6.39

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.

2023

Crypto

Crypto 2019

5.40

A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.

2019

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 2017

7.20

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate.

2017

The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men 2008

10.00

The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.

2008

Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire 2015

10.00

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.

2015

Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain

Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain 2018

5.80

Hacktivist and blockchain expert Lauri Love fights extradition in TRUST MACHINE—his computer skills a threat to the US government. Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF embraces it to help refugee children? Award–winning filmmaker Alex Winter reveals that proponents of blockchain—a verified digital ledger—are already using the technology to change the world; fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis and world hunger.

2018

The Big Squeeze

The Big Squeeze 2021

7.00

The computer game chain GameStop created so much chaos in the stock market that it forced large hedge funds to their knees. How could it happen? Here we follow different people who were brought together during 2020 because of their interest in GameStop's future. Some had invested in the chain's stock, others wondered about it. While the chain's employees trusted that the company would pay their salaries at a time when millions of people went bankrupt and became unemployed.

2021

Vote

Vote 2022

1

A woman struggles as she is caught at a supermarket for shoplifting. This award-winning short film is inspired by the cost of living crisis in Britain.

2022

Banking with Life

Banking with Life 2013

6.00

Banking With Life is a documentary that covers a lot of material in under an hour. Featuring financial experts and economists, as well as testimonies of actual clients, Banking With Life is the definitive primer on what the The Infinite Banking Concept™ is, and how anyone can use it to build wealth and experience financial freedom.

2013

Finding the Money

Finding the Money 2024

6.30

FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us. MMT bursts into the media with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”. FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.

2024

If You Made a Million

If You Made a Million 2002

1

Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know! An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection

2002

The Bull and the Bear

The Bull and the Bear 2021

6.00

Rivalling siblings must enlist the help of a remote Hacker to wage financial war against each others' businesses.

2021

The Banker

The Banker 2019

7.00

It’s tell the story of a bank auditor pursues justice and policy changes at a time when an economic bubble is collapsing. No Dae Ho is an honest and sincere man. He works as a branch manager of Daehan Bank which is located in a small city. The branch is on a soon to be shutdown list. Surprisingly, No Dae Ho is promoted to an auditor at the bank’s headquarters in Seoul. No Dae Ho then faces corruption at the bank.

2019

Industry

Industry 2020

6.90

In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends.

2020

L'indice Mc$ween

L'indice Mc$ween 2017

5.00

This magazine, hosted by popular author, professor and chartered accountant Pierre-Yves McSween, aims to get the general public interested in economics and personal finance. With a tone that is both humorous and credible, the show takes an objective and critical look at elements of economics and finance.

2017

The Exchange

The Exchange 2023

7.60

Set in Kuwait in 1988, two women making their way in the boys club of the Kuwait Stock Exchange, on the eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country.

2023

The Ascent of Money

The Ascent of Money 2008

8.00

Historian Niall Ferguson tells the story of money and the rise of global finance. Bringing context and understanding to the current economic crisis, he reveals how the history of finance has been punctuated by gut-wrenching crashes.

2008

Naniwa Kin'yūdō

Naniwa Kin'yūdō 2022

6.00

Based on a manga series, this drama depicts the reality of 'machi-kane' (street lenders), a type of money lending business in Osaka.

2022

Bulge Bracket

Bulge Bracket 2020

10.00

In the high-intensity world of mergers, acquisitions, and IPOS, a young female investment banker confronts the patriarchy in the frat house of Wall Street. An ensemble dramedy about the costs of climbing the corporate ladder.

2020