The Money Masters

Earlier reviews of this film attack it for not being 'entertaining'.

This documentary doesn't try to be entertainment or 'infotainment'. Rather, its goals seems to be in communicating a fairly complex thesis historical observations in a lucid, easy to follow manner - in this respect it succeeds. Personally, I found 'The Money Masters' a pretty fascinating watch. It threaded and provided context on aspects relating to the fed, and economics, historical ambitions for one world government and so on in a way I haven't seen elsewhere. Through it discusses notion of historical conspiracy, this film is far from a 'fringe' looney conspiracy documentary.

Highly recommend watching, made even more interesting given all that has occurred in America since its release in 1996...

Such a rich and deep documentary exploring every aspect of the money and how it works. Historical explanation of the birth of currency and how it was bond, how the bank's profits over money that doesn't exist as a fractional reservoir system, how the system protects itself around a central bank and who own the system and control everything (the secrets owners societies which rules the World). This doc clarifies the deep secrets of capitalism, best ever to understand with clarity things you won't supposed to know!

An eye opener.A must watch if you are interested in understanding money .

If you like James Corbet's documentary on the same subject, I think this is a more in-depth examination of the the history and an underground epic that shouldnt be missed.

You should always do you own research and search widely. But I found this film to be solid as a rock and with pure intentions.

Yes the film is old-school.. Probably distributed on VHS back in the day .. But like the Yuri Besmenov lectures, sometimes its more powerful to watch people talk from the past and predict the future because it proves they are right and credible.

This would be a great double feature with a Yuri Besmenov lecture.

This was the worst documentary I've ever seen. 3 and a half hours - ugh. I wasn't even able to enjoy it ironically.

Here are the main issues against my enjoyment:

*)There's no production value, no creativity in the scenes.

*)There's no music.

*)There is one, skinny-faced man talking at you for 3 and 1/2 hours.

To make things worse, it seems the film was either researched from conspiracy newsgroups in the 1990's, or it was all a delusional dream from the filmmaker.

The thesis reminds me of Scientology. Like Dianetics, there are bits of truth scattered about to suck you in - for example, the Federal Reserve isn't a purely public institution. Moneyed people have power. Alright, keep going! Then it hits you with a whopper: the fed is 100% private and owned by the Illuminati (which they call the Money Masters), Fort Knox is empty, and this international evil cabal wants to create a "one world currency" to enslave us foreverrrr!!!!

As evidence for the more outlandish claims, the film features some hilariously bad quotes. For example,

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

If you've read any Thomas Jefferson, or any writing from people in the early 19th century, this doesn't pass the smell test. Deflation wasn't even a word at the time.

"Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain." - Napoleon Bonaparte

WHAT?! Again, this doesn't even sound like Napoleon. It's actually from a book printed in the 30's.

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles ... the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." - Abraham Lincoln.

Again, not even close. This is from a book in the 1930's.

I could do more quotes, but you get the point. Every other one I looked up was entirely false or taken out of context.

A scholar reads first-hand sources. If they quote Napoleon or Thomas Jefferson, it's because they read Napoleon or Thomas Jefferson.

Nobody involved with this film was a scholar.

"This was the worst movie ever made" - Benjamin Franklin