This is a story about money; a superpower put up for sale, the seven men who bought it, what they did to get it, and their legacy to the world. These so-called 'oligarchs' secured control of perhaps 70% of the entire Russian economy: from oil and gas to rare metals and retail services, textiles and food processing to real estate and the media. Now they are taking over the West, and Britain is the key. Like the ruthless barons of 19th and early 20th Century America - Carnegie, Rockefeller, Astor - they rose to power via a mixture of bribery, influence-peddling, insider-dealing and intimidation. Their story is told via archive material and interviews with the prime players themselves, as well as journalists, politicians, bankers, economists, police investigators and the men and women whom the 'godfathers' pushed aside, employed or discarded on their way to the top.

Subtitled in Bahasa and Traditional Chinese.