The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

Editor's Take

Michael Oswald's film argues that as the British Empire fell, the City of London built a fresh source of power through a web of offshore financial havens. It explains, with expert testimony, how these jurisdictions move and conceal enormous sums beyond the reach of tax and scrutiny. The film advances a clear thesis about hidden financial power, so its case should be weighed as an argument rather than a neutral survey. On its own terms it makes an opaque system unusually legible.

The Spider's Web reveals how, as the British Empire declined, the City of London built a new kind of power through a network of secretive offshore financial centres. Michael Oswald's film explains how these havens move and hide vast sums of money, shielding wealth from tax and scrutiny around the world. Through expert interviews it argues that this hidden system quietly shapes the modern global economy. It is a clear and unsettling account of finance operating in the shadows. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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