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Secret City (2012)

Secret City (2012)

Documentary

A film about the City of London, the Corporation that runs it, and its role in the economic crisis.

Release Date: 2012, October 16
Directors: Michael Chanan
Cast: Robin Blackburn, Michael Chanan, Natalie Bennett, Alex Alhassan Darboe, Stephen Haseltine, Jamie Kelsey-Fry, Doreen Massey

Overview:

London and the City of London are not the same place. London is a metropolis of 8 million people. The City of London is the famous square mile in the middle, with about 7,000 residents but many more businesses. A Corporation older than Parliament, the City of London has played a key historical role in protecting and promoting the interests of finance capital. Secret City investigates the power wielded by the Corporation of London over British economic policy, through which it sustains London's prime position at the hub of global finance capital - not least through control of the majority of the world's tax havens.

Keywords:

united kingdom secrecy corporatocracy city of london corporation of london antidemocratic