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- The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
- Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
- Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
- A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
- When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.
- The New York police investigates the murder of a Czech immigrant whose rags-to-riches story is told by his secretary to homicide detectives.
- Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again.
- A grouchy shopkeeper made an unsuccessful financial investment, and now he is on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avenge oneself he engages his own family into a plan to rob a next door bank.
- A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
- An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
- An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
- Charley Sharp, a broker's clerk, with the aid of two pals starts the "Gee Whiz Mining Co.," and so well do they launch the enterprise that the money simply pours in. Dividends are paid the first month and Sharp, not trusting the banks, brings home his share and gives it to his wife to keep for him. She, spurred on by her husband's insinuation that she knows nothing about business, determines to show him that she does. The Gee Whiz mine stocks seem to be the best paying investment on the market, so she simply invests all her husband's money in them, not knowing that the whole affair is a fake promoted by her husband. Meanwhile, the secret service people have been busy, and immediately after Mrs. Sharp has deposited the money in the Gee Whiz office the place is raided and all holdings confiscated. Sharp escapes the clutches of the law and rushes home, where he gasps and chokes on learning of his wife's awful mistake, then, as the police arrest him, he goes out with bowed head and silent tongue.
- A crafty salesman attempts to raise some quick cash to fund an inventor's development of a gasoline substitute.
- Ruth Ancaster is about to marry her fiance, Edward, when she discovers that he has been cheating on her with a variety of different women. Angered, she marries Henry, Edward's best friend. Edward sees a chance to take his revenge on both of them when Henry, in financial trouble, forges Edward's name on a stock certificate and is caught. He offers to drop the charges against Henry if Ruth agrees to "pay the price"--and he doesn't mean money.
- Ex-criminals Mendoza and Clare Conway are butler and maid in the home of wealthy Christopher Darley and are engaged. John Stover, who recognizes Peter as a former convict, informs Darley and tries to embroil him in a fraudulent stock scheme, but he refuses. When Stover obtains a proxy empowering him to outvote Darley, Peter contrives a general holdup of guests at a party, steals the proxy, and burns it. After escaping from the house, the couple disclose their motive to Darley; he then presents them with a country house as a wedding present.
- Fred Blake sets out to avenge his mother who died of shock as the result of a raid by an outlaw gang. He discovers that a gang-member killed in the raid was the long-lost son (since childhood) of the wealthy Monroe family, so he impersonates him and intends to exact his revenge on the family.
- A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.
- The police learn that Fleece has victimized a number of people by selling worthless stocks. Detectives Wallace and West are assigned to the case. The officers secure a room underneath Fleece's office. By installing a vocaphone in the swindler's office they are enabled to overhear all that transpires. Fleece induces Maud, the clerk at the cigar stand in the building, to purchase some of his stocks. Coleman, her sweetheart, urges Maud to demand the return of her money. The girl, however, insists that the stocks are valuable. Coleman later enters Fleece's office and orders the man to return the money he has mulcted from Maud. The swindler sneers at him and a fight ensues. Coleman is driven from the office at the point of a revolver. The vocaphone transmits the voices of the men to the detectives downstairs. Meanwhile, Maud learns from a prominent financier that Fleece has robbed her. The girl hastens to the swindler's office and demands her money back. Instead, Fleece seizes her in his arms. Maud struggles. Her hand brushes the revolver lying on the desk. She picks up the weapon. In the struggle the revolver is fired. Fleece falls to the floor. Coleman hears the shot and learns of what has occurred. He compels Maud to leave the office. Wallace and West have failed to listen to Maud's argument with Fleece, but come running up at the sound of the shot. Coleman stands over Fleece, pistol in hand. The young man declares that he has shot the man. Maud listens at the door and realizes the sacrifice her lover intends to make. She rushes into the room and declares her guilt. Fleece is dying. With the knowledge that his end is at hand, the man calls the officers to his side and confesses that Maud shot him in self-defense.
- A businessman's jealous wife suspects he is running around with other women. The tables are turned when a friend of the family involves her in a stock scheme. Her husband begins to suspect that she and her "partner" are involved in more than just business, not knowing that the scheme has gone bad and she has lost all the money she invested.
- A clever con man makes a living by preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks.
- 1999– 1h 49mR7.8 (4.5K)TV Episode82MetascoreCorporate audio and videotapes tell the inside story of the scandal involving one company's manipulation of California's energy supply and its, and how its executives wrung a billion dollars out of the resulting crisis.
- Bat's friend, Ellie Winters, is hired by promoters selling shares in their diamond mine. Although Ellie is convinced that the mine is legitimate, Bat investigates and discovers the owners are salting the mine with high-grade quartz.
- Kojak works on a Wall Street robbery that involves three murders. When usual methods fail, Kojak goes undercover as a Greek millionaire. He suspects a well-known stockbroker whom he hopes to catch attempting to sell the stocks to him. Things go awry when the thieves find out that the Greek millionaire Kojak is impersonating is actually in Europe. Kojak is kidnapped and counts on his colleagues saving him.
- Don takes under his wing the son of a murdered executive as the team and Charlie try to narrow down who's responsible out of a pool of six thousand or more.