The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (2017), how Britain transformed from a colonial power to 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.

• Website: spiderswebfilm.com
• Distributor: Sideways Film
• IMDB: The Spider’s Web Film
• With Contributions From: Michael Hudson, Nicholas Shaxson, Prem Sikka, Eva Joly, John Christensen, Stuart Syvret, Ronen Palan…..
• Narrator: Andrew Piper
• Director/Producer/Writer: Michael Oswald
• Executive Producer: Simeon C. Roberts
• Made in Collaboration with: Sean Adam Boucher
• Co-producer: John Christensen
• Associate Producers: Daniel Turi & Katharine Round
• Soundtrack: Sean Adam Boucher, Tim Hecker & Matthew Swinnerton
• Translations: Spanish by Andrés Arias Uribe; Spanish proofing by Marcelo Justo; German by Ursula Stucki; German proofing by Professor Martina Metzger; Italian by Mario Palla; Italian proofing by Tommaso Faccio; Korean by Joon Sik Jung; Russian by Anastasia Nesvetailova & Maksim Makarov; Hungarian by Istvan Radnoty; French by Michele Christensen; Turkish by Unknown; Arabic by Amal Alsadi; Portuguese by Duarte (korta@sapo.pt) and Francisco Sá; Chinese (Traditional) by Fred Pfeifer; Japanese by Kawasaki san; Hindi by Aawaara Banjaara;