Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (Season 1)

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (2023) is the Netflix true-crime docuseries you can watch online on iFILM. Across four episodes it traces how financier Bernie Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme ever pulled off on Wall Street — roughly $65 billion gone.

Director Joe Berlinger starts in the firm's respectable early years and walks forward to the morning the lie collapsed and thousands of investors woke up ruined. Archival footage, testimony from former employees and dramatized reenactments (Joseph Scotto plays Madoff) build a picture of a man trusted for decades by banks, charities and his own neighbours. Reporter Diana Henriques, who covered the case for years, lays out the mechanics in plain terms.

What makes it land is the focus less on the fraud than on the regulators and reputations that looked the other way for so long. Good pick if you liked Dirty Money. Stream Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street online on iFILM.