Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

★ 0.0 2011 1h 0m HD

Ian Hislop presents this film about the colourful, seriously wealthy Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving financial recklessness. Ian looks at attitudes to money and morality when the London first became the world's financial centre.

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Genres Documentary
Release 2011-11-22

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