The financial system the world's economies run on has failed. It has broken down, and will continue breaking down, until citizens of the G8 nations identify the real, root causes of the catastrophe.

The assertions of government, banking and media that this is a result of the housing bubble or the commodities bubble or the liquidity crisis or the credit crunch or the sub-prime mortgage melt-down or predatory lending policies is a disingenuous campaign of misinformation that is calculated to deter excess public scrutiny and comprehension into the actual cause.

Over the last 100 years, the evidence that points to a systematic and repetitive global defrauding of the people by an elite cadre of government officials, bankers and corporations is overwhelming. Furthermore, the calls for stopping these policies and the derivative financial monsters they spawned have been published by analysts, writers, and even the governments' own appointed managing directors since the early nineties.

In fact, the organizations who have been lobbying for a more responsible framework for the global financial system have predicted, in writing, and as a matter of public record, the precise unfolding of events since the crisis began in 2007. This small group of individuals has been ignored and stigmatized as conspiracy theorists for most of their existence, and it is only now that the crash of the entire system is upon us that their words ring unmistakably of truth.

Starting with the establishment of the gold standard under the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, the U.S. government, abetted by certain elite financial institutions, have positioned the U.S. Dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency through a focused and unwavering program of unlawful activities, despite the warnings and outcry of a small but persistent minority.

The pervasiveness and destructive nature of this current monetary system built on fraud and deceit precludes, through the enforced poverty of the majority of the world's population, the realization of the full potential of the human race. This film is intended as a catalyst to stir public awareness, debate and action.

Crime of the Century is a feature length documentary film that examines the myriad causes of the financial system collapse and undertakes a simple, fact-based explanation in layman's terms of the assorted complex tools fabricated by this elite cartel whose sole purpose is the concentration of greater wealth to a diminutive yet all-powerful minority.

Initially, it explores the historical role that gold has played in global economics since the onset of recorded history, and illuminates the methods and techniques various governments controlled by banking interests have deployed to portray this most basic form of money as just another commodity.

It demonstrates how through first the implementation of a U.S. Dollar biased gold standard and then the abolition of that standard this group has successfully saturated their ranks of accomplice banks with capital conjured from thin air, and created a regulatory environment that perfectly accommodated their criminal intentions.

It then moves on to simple explanations of the various financial instruments that have been developed in this un-regulated atmosphere designed to generate massive dollar transactions that are the mechanisms that transfer our wealth into the pockets of those running the scam.

Through interviews and historical footage, Crime of the Century demonstrates in no uncertain terms the factual existence of this scheme. Through the testimony of leading experts including ex-government managers, Nobel laureates and academic prfoessors, analysts, traders, CFO's, elite investors, bank industry insiders and the vociferous group of writers who have warning about this situation for years, irrefutable evidence of the corruption destroying our world under the banner of democracy is presented.

It examines and explores the contention of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's basic premise that the price of gold has been suppressed by a complex scheme involving collusion among JP Morgan Chase, Barrick Gold Corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and various Central Banks around the world. While the obvious and superficial outcome is the artificially low price of gold for over twenty years, GATA contends that the effects of this scheme are exponentially more pernicious, amounting to nothing less than the undermining and corruption of the entire global financial and monetary systems.

The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in January 1999 to advocate and undertake litigation against illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial securities.

James West, financial commentator and editor of MidasLetter.com, a newsletter that translates complex financial jargon into actionable investment strategies for Mom and Pop investors travels to the world's financial centers and interviews some of the most prominent members of the global financial community to elicit on camera evidence of the scheme which is finally coming undone with the collapse of the U.S. banking system and the resulting global recession, as the United States economy continues to crumble under an overwhelming economic meltdown that GATA says is directly attributable to the conspiracy.

Finally, some of the most recognized names in the business world are interviewed about their views of the source of the unfolding catastrophe, and their takes on the relationship of gold to the central banking systems of the world are elicited and juxtaposed against their ideas of what needs to change to ensure the emergence of a better global economy from the ashes of this one's demise.

The film's ultimate messages are:
1. Certain institutional and private organizations collude in tacit cooperation to aggravate the volatility of natural business cycles to maximize self enrichment;
2. The price of gold is artificially suppressed to facilitate the fraud being perpetuated by a global cartel of elite bankers and government, and on the eve of the largest financial collapse in human history, its ascendance as the preferred global currency is imminent;
3. Evidence of these allegations is sufficient to warrant an investigation by the International Court of the Hague to investigate and attempt to end certain practices and policies;
4. There are actions that all viewers of this film can undertake to force the adoption of a financial system that is more equitable and transparent.