The 22 Best Scam Documentaries

22 documentaries

Frauds, fakes and the people who fell for them.

The best scam documentaries make you understand why smart people fell for it. Tickled starts as a story about competitive tickling and gets very dark, very fast. Sour Grapes and Fyre show how far confidence alone will carry a fraud.

Tickled poster

1

Tickled

2016 · 1h 32m

7.594%

Sour Grapes poster

2

Sour Grapes

2016 · 1h 26m

7.296%

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room poster

3

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005 · 1h 50m

7.697%

Fyre poster

4

Fyre

2019 · 1h 38m

7.293%

Betting on Zero poster

5

Betting on Zero

2016 · 1h 44m

7.1100%

The Pez Outlaw poster

6

The Pez Outlaw

2022 · 1h 25m

6.9100%

The Tinder Swindler poster

7

The Tinder Swindler

2022 · 1h 54m

7.197%

Dirty Money poster

8

Dirty Money

2018 · 12 eps

8.0

Bitconned poster

9

Bitconned

2024 · 1h 35m

6.5100%

Made You Look poster

10

Made You Look

2020 · 1h 36m

7.088%

Operation Varsity Blues poster

11

Operation Varsity Blues

2021 · 1h 40m

6.988%

The China Hustle poster

12

The China Hustle

2017 · 1h 24m

7.180%

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley poster

13

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

2019 · 1h 59m

7.278%

LuLaRich poster

14

LuLaRich

2021 · 4 eps

7.4

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street poster

15

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

2023 · 4 eps

7.3

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard poster

16

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

2022 · 1h 32m

7.2

McMillion$ poster

17

McMillion$

2020 · 6 eps

7.2

WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn poster

18

WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

2021 · 1h 44m

6.675%

The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman poster

19

The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman

2023 · 3 eps

6.9

The Lady and the Dale poster

20

The Lady and the Dale

2021 · 4 eps

6.9

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King poster

21

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King

2022 · 1h 30m

6.3

Bad Vegan poster

22

Bad Vegan

2022 · 4 eps

5.9

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