The Black Box: When Finance Can No Longer Explain Itself

Lego: How One Man Built a Toy Empire traces the extraordinary journey of LEGO from a small carpenter’s workshop in rural Denmark to one of the most powerful and beloved brands in the world. The film begins with Ole Kirk Christiansen, a craftsman shaped by hardship, fires, and economic collapse, whose belief in quality and the value of play laid the foundation for a company that would outlast generations. Through innovation, resilience, and a radical idea — that every brick should fit every other — LEGO evolved from simple wooden toys into a global system of creativity. As the story unfolds, the documentary explores LEGO’s rise alongside the growth of the global toy market, revealing how a single company came to dominate an industry worth more than 120 billion dollars. It examines pivotal moments of expansion, near-bankruptcy, and reinvention, from the licensing revolution of Star Wars to the bold turnaround that reshaped LEGO’s future. Beyond the business, the film looks at LEGO’s cultural impact: its role in childhood development, the emergence of adult fans and professional builders, and the transformation

Big Cocoa: Price Struggles In West Africa - Large corporations, also known as Big Cocoa, control the price of raw cocoa on the West African market and keep global prices low. But what can be done about this and how are prices actually set? Big Cocoa: Price Struggles In West Africa (2024) Interviews: Paul Schoenmakers, Michel Arrion, Axel Emmanuel Gbaou, Antonie Fountain, Terry Collingsworth Genre: Documentary Country: Germany Language: English Synopsis: Around 5 million farmers produce cocoa beans worldwide, and they are exposed to the direct effects of world market prices for raw cocoa on a daily basis. Large corporations control the price of raw cocoa on the West African market and keep prices low. In 2020, Côte d'Ivoire called for a regulated minimum price for raw cocoa, and in 2022 the EU enforced stricter supply chain laws. However, it remains unclear whether these measures will actually lead to fair prices for West Africa in the long term. Moconomy interviewed VOICE Network, Tony's Chocolonely, Chocolatier Ivoirienne, the ICCO and human rights lawyer Terry Collingsworth to investigate how cocoa prices are

The System of Money - This film presents serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. The System of Money (2012) Director: Michael Oswald Writers: Mike Horwath, Michael Oswald Stars: Ben Dyson, Anne Belsey, Noel Longhurst Genre: Documentary Country: United Kingdom Language: English Release Date: 1 May 2012 (UK) Filming Location: London, England, UK Storyline: 97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon

The SaaS Apocalypse | Will AI Destroy the Software Business? Software stocks are under pressure as artificial intelligence makes coding faster, cheaper and increasingly accessible. But does cheaper software actually mean companies like Salesforce, DocuSign and other SaaS giants are becoming obsolete? Investor Jared Sleeper joins the conversation to examine what AI could really mean for the software industry. The discussion explores why enterprise software has historically been so valuable, what makes these products difficult to replace and why code itself may represent only a fraction of what customers are actually paying for. From network effects, integrations and proprietary data to AI agents and entirely new pricing models, the episode explores three possible futures: software companies disappear, very little changes — or the winners use AI to capture far more economic value than ever before. It also looks at falling software valuations, stock-based compensation, potential layoffs, changing demand for software engineers and a fundamental shift from selling software per seat to selling automated outcomes that replace human work. If AI can do the work instead of simply helping employees do

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire - How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power. The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2017) Director: Michael Oswald Writers: Michael Oswald(screenplay) Stars: Joel Benjamin, Peter Cain, John Christensen Genre: Documentary Country: United Kingdom, United States Language: English Release Date: 5 May 2017 (Mexico) Storyline: The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire, is a documentary film that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. 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. With contributions from leading experts, academics, former insiders

Sick of taking responsibility for the bad things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists from Phoenix, Arizona. Eighteen-year-old Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21, respectively) claim to be able to confront the demons lurking inside traumatized people and draw them out using nothing more than a crucifix and a few choice words. But are these teenage exorcists really empowered by the Almighty, or merely by Brynne's father, a failed televangelist named Reverend Bob? This documentary was produced by Renegade Pictures and directed by Bronwen Parker-Rhodes. It was first released in 2013. --- Click the SUBSCRIBE button and make sure to set NOTIFICATIONS to stay updated with all new content!