Ethical and Forensic Movies

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Forensic

Smartest Guys in the Room -Enron - free on Prime

Con Man free on Prime James Caan, Armand Assante, Talia Shire, and yes Barry himself

Day of the Jackal, free on you tube directed by Fred Zimmerman who also did High Noon, Man for All Seasons, Here to Eternity

Rogue Trader - Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson, accurate portrayal of how Nick destroyed Barings Bank, four bucks to rent on Amazon

Sherlock Holmes = free on you tube both more modern Jeremy Brent and classic Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

Gotti - Armand Assante won an Emmy for his portrayal of gangster John Gotti, John Travolta tried a re make  and if flopped, this is gangster at its best. Paul Castellano decided he was a business man, Gotti always knew he was a gnangster and had Paul killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRqOkF1G6Q

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I also teach the acct ethics class, I got to looking on youtube and was surprised to find some great choices, a few years back I had a long list of movies with ethical themes and had students write reviews

Casablanca - Look at any list of top ten movies of all time and Casablanca is always there, filmed in B & W in 1942 starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, a solider of fortune runs Rick's Cafe American in Casablanca, Morroco, now over run by the Germans who install a Vichy French government to suit their needs, fabulous, no one should get a college degree if they have not watched and comment on Casablanca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_mlpUnYfM

Lord of War - free on youtube, Nick Cage plays an amoral American international arms dealer, based on the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bot, fabulous ethical situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmeV6th0ZY

Barbarians at the Gate, stars James Garner, story of hostile takeover of Nabisco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3HiONtjZSM&t=46s

Blood Diamonds-  Leo DiCaprio, story of how Debeers used near slaves to find diamonds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ref5IM8HA30

Jerry McGuire - Tom Cruise as the sports agent who knows he is doing the wrong thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YSgvuGrYD4

Oh Mi Gosh The Hunt for ?Red October, Sean Connery in the first Tom Clancy novel to be made in to a movie, just great, Sam Neil, Alec Baldwin before he went nuts, Admiral Ramius to give the most advanced Soviet Sub to America, Connery at his best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ahG3ySyV8

Heat Of the Night, academy award winner Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, small Southern town sheriff dept picks up Poitier and accuses him of a local murder, turns out he is a top Philadelphia homicide detective, 1966 but holds up well as admiration from the sheriff towards the Philly detective grows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHf8Dh97Qqc

The Professionals, none of you will remember this but indeed a movies all about ethics, stellar cast of Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, Claudia Cardinal,  two soldiers of fortune hired to rescue  Bellamy's wife from Jesus raza played by P, Palance, great theme song and great ethical movie which just happens to be a Western in about  1914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ui-NHaLvYM

Yes I realize you do not know these actors, trust me try this

The Last King of Scotland - Forrest Whitaker delivers a terrific performance as Idi Amin - Uganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4ix7hRZ40

Wolf of Wall Street - DiCaprio plays a real life scoundrel hooked on drugs and money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J788MZ2uIGA

Falling Down - Michael Douglas best role according to his Dad Kirk Douglas, yes I realize none of you know how Kirk is but big time actor director producer back when, a fired computer whiz  has finally had enough, he encounters Robert Duvall as a detective on his last day on the  job,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ICNUgNbRk

The Conversation - starring Gene Hackman and directed by Francis Coppola (Godfather) a security expert hers something in  a recording which leads to unexpected consequences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzO9V-AWWZg

Key Largo - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, gangsters take over a Florida resort as hurricane bears down on them, terrific classsic I do not know why this has not been re made but that may  not be possible, yes it is black and white

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOmzCvafhCE

In the Heat of the Night, Academy Award Rod Steiger and Sidney Potier, holds up well after all these years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHf8Dh97Qqc&t=6s