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The City of London and Britain's Offshore Finance Network

Independent POV · Documentary · YouTube title: The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
Why it's here

Commenters repeatedly recommend it in tax haven and offshore finance threads as an excellent, low-budget overview of British offshore finance.

What it covers

A feature-length documentary on how the City of London and Britain's overseas territories built a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions after the empire declined. It traces how this network captured and hid wealth from around the world.