Finance Documentary in Full Length: 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) Duration: 78 min 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 jurisdict
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