Storyville
Season 16 Episode 19 - The $750 Million Thief
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in US history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud that netted over 750 million dollars. For six years, Dreier funded an increasingly extravagant lifestyle of yachts, artwork, houses and celebrity events sponsored by his law firm by living a lie. But his white collar crime spree could not outrun the credit crunch and, after a few headline grabbing acts of desperation, Dreier was arrested in December 2008. Director Marc H Simon filmed his former employer and mentor during Dreier's 60-day wait under house arrest for sentencing. This documentary is an insightful, first person account of Dreier's struggle to comprehend his criminal demise and reflects the wider culture of greed that permeates today's corporate landscape.
Episodes in Season 16
Survivors: Despicable Dick
85 min
Survivors: My Friend Sam - Living For the Moment
85 min
Survivors: Lust for Life
85 min
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
85 min
The Love of Books - A Sarajevo Story
85 min
Fire in Babylon
85 min
Knuckle: Bare Fist Fighting
85 min
Murderball
85 min
Who Is Gorky? An Abstract Life
85 min
The Reluctant Revolutionary
85 min
Tabloid: Sex in Chains
85 min
Hijack Hell - Bus 174
85 min
The Real Great Escape
85 min
Girl Model
85 min
Albino Witchcraft Murders
85 min
Hitler, Stalin, and Mr Jones
85 min
The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story
85 min
Racing Dreams
85 min
The $750 Million Thief
85 min
Olympic Massacre: One Day In September
85 min
JFK's Road to the White House: Primary 1960
85 min
The Chef Who Conquered New York: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
85 min
From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film
85 min
The Other Irish Travellers
85 min
Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
85 min
