The Panama Papers (2018)
A Documentary about systemic corruption and income inequality

Directed by Alex Winter
United States, 2018


A reminder of the important work reporters do in fighting abuses of power and the way that work is evolving in an increasingly fractured global landscape. --Los Angeles Times

The Panama Papers is a lively and level-headed exposé, but it's also a moral inquiry into how the top echelon is now united, structurally and spiritually, in robbing the rest of us blind. -- Owen Gleiberman (Variety)

The most critical element of Winter's documentary is not the scandal itself, but the fact that hundreds of journalists from around the world were able to work together to expose this corruption, despite the consequences, and their egos. --Film Threat



Investigative journalism doesn’t get more exciting than this: a backstage look at the work that produced the sensational revelations from the Panama Papers.

THE PANAMA PAPERS is a feature documentary that charts the story of the massive data leak that exposed the largest global corruption scandal in history.

Hundreds of journalists around the globe worked in secret, at great personal risk, to reveal a scandal involving corrupt power brokers, the uber rich, elected officials, dictators, cartel bosses, athletes and celebrities who had used the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca to hide their money for any number of illegal reasons.


Panama Papers revealed many world leaders had hidden their money in tax havens.

The reports detailed tax evasion, fraud, cronyism, bribing government officials, election meddling, and murder. The investigation proved that the system is rigged, and cracked the vault of well-kept secrets and ill-gotten wealth, revealing vast and coordinated corruption among the world's elite.

The significance for the average, tax paying, law-abiding citizen is enormous; with the leaks showing that at least $32 trillion was hiding in more than 80 tax havens in 2010 alone. But breaking the story was only the beginning.

There was immediate blowback from many of the named and accused, who are using every tactic imaginable to silence the journalists.