All Magnatefall Documentaries
Magnatefall makes business documentaries about corporate frauds, financial collapses and the people behind them, from Bernie Madoff and Enron to Theranos and FTX. Every film is sourced from court records, regulator filings and major news reporting. Browse every documentary, newest first, and open the full written file for each story.
Yahoo: How a $125 Billion Giant Sold for $4.8 Billion (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Yahoo was the front door of the internet. Then a side investment outgrew the whole company, and the door itself was sold. This is the story…
Toys'R'Us: The Death of Childhood's Biggest Shop (opens YouTube in a new tab)
In 1948, Charles Lazarus opened a baby furniture store in Washington, D.C. In June 1957, he opened the first Toys "R" Us in Rockville…
Kodak: The Company That Invented the Future and Ignored It (opens YouTube in a new tab)
On January 19, 2012, Eastman Kodak Company and its United States subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in the Southern District…
$6 Billion Empire, One Store Left (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Blockbuster ran more than nine thousand stores, took in about six billion dollars a year at its peak, and now has one shop left in Bend…
Orkut: The Network That Lost Two Countries (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Google built Orkut for the whole world, and the whole world mostly ignored it. Brazil and India did not. For a decade, a side project named…
Sears: The Retail Giant That Died (opens YouTube in a new tab)
You could order a whole house from a book. Sears began by selling watches by mail, grew into the store that sold America everything, then…
Vine: The 18 Stars Who Asked for $21.6 Million (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Eighteen of Vine's biggest stars met Twitter in Los Angeles in late 2015 and named a price: 1.2 million dollars each, for twelve original…
MySpace: The Internet Pioneer That Vanished (opens YouTube in a new tab)
MySpace gave every user the code to their own page, and for a brief moment it was the internet itself. Then the biggest website in America…
Binance Hack: Who Signed the Withdrawals? (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Binance hack explained: on 29 October 2026, TRM Labs says funds began leaving Binance wallets at 20:05 UTC. Binance says the estimated…
BlackBerry: The Device That Ruled the World and Vanished (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Six and a half years at the company, a father of two, handed a pink slip in August 2012. BlackBerry was the phone every serious business…
Nokia: How the King of Phones Lost Everything (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Gartner put Nokia at 40.4% of phones sold in Q4 2007. A few years later, Nokia sold its entire phone business to Microsoft. This film…
Broker Rigged Dalal Street With 1,200-Crore Pay Orders (opens YouTube in a new tab)
A piece of bank paper promises one thousand two hundred crore rupees. The bank that issued it does not have the money to pay it. This file…
Vijay Mallya, Rs 9,000 Crore in Debt, Still Free in London (opens YouTube in a new tab)
A Kingfisher pilot once described the last months in plain terms: no pay, no flights, and no answers. Vijay Mallya, the man who built that…
$2 Billion Alleged: The Nirav Modi File (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Right now, in London, a jeweller once courted by the rich waits in custody to learn whether he will be sent back to India. Prosecutors in…
Satyam Hid $1 Billion in Plain Sight (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Satyam means truth. Its chairman wrote a letter saying the cash on the books was mostly not there. This is the story of how one of India's…
Why Did a $26 Million Festival Fall Apart? (opens YouTube in a new tab)
They flew to the Bahamas for villas, gourmet food, and headline acts. They found wet tents, a cheese sandwich in a foam box, and a festival…
The $7 Billion Lie That Bought Cricket (110 Years) (opens YouTube in a new tab)
A Texas banker promised safety and returns no other bank could match. His bank in Antigua sold certificates of deposit to about eighteen…
Worth $4.8 Billion, Then Valued at $20 Million (opens YouTube in a new tab)
The pictures are still for sale. The archive is still open. But the company behind them is bankrupt, and its public shareholders get…
The Vatican's Banker Was Found Under a London Bridge (opens YouTube in a new tab)
God's Banker, Roberto Calvi, was found under Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 with bricks in his pockets. Two inquests later, no one has been…
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The $200 Million Phone Scam That Cost 22 Months (opens YouTube in a new tab)
A phone room on Long Island sold stocks by the thousand, and the people on the other end of the line paid for it. Jordan Belfort and…
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Charles Ponzi: The 50% Promise That Broke Boston's Banks (opens YouTube in a new tab)
In the summer of 1920, a line of people waited outside a Boston office to hand their savings to Charles Ponzi. His Ponzi scheme promised…
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Steve Jobs' $599 Gamble That Killed The Keyboard (opens YouTube in a new tab)
The first gen iPhone could barely make a phone call on the morning it was shown to the world. It dropped calls, lost the Internet, and…
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Josh Wander's $500M Fraud: The Fake Billionaire (opens YouTube in a new tab)
He owned football clubs on three continents and ordered more jets than most airlines ever fly. Josh Wander looked like a billionaire…
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The $4 Billion Cryptocurrency That Never Existed (opens YouTube in a new tab)
It sold in more than 175 countries. It filled Wembley Arena. Its own books recorded €3.35 billion in sales in under two years. And the…
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Builder.ai: The $1.5 Billion AI Startup That Collapsed (opens YouTube in a new tab)
On 20 May 2025, on a single staff video call, a chief executive told hundreds of employees the money was gone. The lenders had seized what…
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47 Days That Erased $63 Billion at Enron (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Enron was voted America's most innovative company six years in a row. Behind that title was a lie, and the lie ended in a $63 billion…
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How De Beers Lost $17 Billion (opens YouTube in a new tab)
In October 2026, Cartier-owner Richemont entered talks to join the bidding for De Beers, the company behind the most powerful monopoly in…
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How $32 Billion Vanished in 7 Days (opens YouTube in a new tab)
The FTX collapse is the largest crypto scandal in history, and the simplest question about it is the most asked: what happened to FTX, in…
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How Theranos Turned $9 Billion Into Nothing (opens YouTube in a new tab)
The Theranos scandal is the defining startup fraud of the Silicon Valley era. Elizabeth Holmes promised to run hundreds of medical tests…
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How Bernie Madoff Stole $65 Billion (And Got 150 Years) (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Bernie Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, $65 billion in paper fortunes that never existed. For decades, the most trusted name…
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