The films listed below grapple with issues relevant to corporate responsibility managers.

Listed films are publicly available, but it is well worth scouring sources such as YouTube for clips like the advertisement for Wormwood Bayne – (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ivx_1u_2HY).

Finance, taxes and the financial crisis

Banksters – a look at the role of HSBC in money-laundering involving Mexican drug cartels.  From the director of 'Goldman Sachs: The Bank that Rules the World.'

Inside the Storm – series of case studies of companies such as Kodak and Lehman Brothers and how they responded when they faced crises.

Plunder: the Crime of our Time – a look at the 2008 financial crisis from eight years further on.  This documentary asks has anything changed?

The Price We Pay – an examination of tax avoidance that exposes how tech giants and multinationals are stashing trillions offshore and depriving governments of hundreds of billions in tax revenue each year.

UK Gold - a documentary exposing the tax avoidance industry operated by the highly secretive, centuries-old institution, The City of London

Industries and companies

Betting on Zero – a documentary about the nutritional products company, Herbalife, which some people claim is just a pyramid scheme.

Deepwater Horizon – Hollywood drama based on the catastrophic drilling rig disaster caused by BP and other major oil industry players in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dirty Money – a series of case studies of companies that have crossed ethical and legal lines in pursuit of profit.

Steve Jobs: the Man in the Machine – a film about the evolution of Apple and its co-founder, Steve Jobs.

The Godfather – has there ever been a better look at family business than Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy about the Mafia?

Contemporary Workplace

I, Daniel Blake – Director Ken Loach has produced many films about working life over the years, and this recent hit takes a cold, hard look at the precarious nature of employment and the difficulties of being unemployed.

The True Cost – examining the lives of workers around the world who produce our fashionable, must-have clothes.

Health and the Environment

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – 2017 follow-up to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, updating us on what is happening with climate change and what action needs to be taken.

Rotten – a series of films looking at the supply chain of the global food industry.

Take Your Pills – a look at how drug companies target students to work faster and better.

The Climate Change Experiment – The Economist’s examination of geoengineering and other technological solutions companies might take up.

Social Development

Post Truth Times – a look at the changing nature of the media with particular emphasis on the strategies of Donald Trump.

Saving Capitalism - Robert Reich’s investigation into contemporary capitalism.

The Other Half of the Sky – documentary exploring leading businesswomen in China.

The White Helmets – documentary about the volunteer emergency forces working amidst the Syrian civil war.

This Man Worked Undercover in a Chinese iPhone Factory – YouTube reportage about life making iPhones in China.