Bankrupt Giants

Bankrupt Giants is a corporate collapse documentary channel dissecting the biggest company failures, frauds, and private equity bankruptcies of the modern era. Cinematic 12-17 minute investigations of FTX, Theranos, WeWork, Enron, Sears, Red Lobster, Purdue and the Sacklers, RBS, Spirit Airlines, Nikola, and Big Lots — each film built on original multi-source research, primary court filings, SEC documents, and on-the-record reporting, not recycled summaries. We trace the exact decisions, deals, and lies that turned market leaders into bankruptcy filings, and put the executives who walked away with the money on the record. A new collapse drops every week, from billion-dollar fraud documentaries to private equity strip-mining case studies. Subscribe to see which giant falls next.

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Our mission

Bankrupt Giants exists to put corporate collapses on the record before they are forgotten. Each film is built on primary court filings, SEC documents, congressional testimony, depositions, and on-the-record reporting — not recycled summaries. The financial structures that produced each failure are reconstructed line by line, and the executives who walked away with the money are named.

Who watches Bankrupt Giants

Our audience is mostly business and tech professionals in the United States and Europe — finance, law, technology, healthcare — plus journalists, academics, and undergraduates studying corporate strategy, accounting, and white-collar criminal law. The films are used in MBA case-study reading lists at several US business schools. We have an active comment community of laid-off retail and airline workers, former executives at the companies covered, and lawyers who worked the cases.

Publishing frequency

A new full-length film publishes every Saturday at 13:00 UTC. Short-form cuts (60-90 seconds) appear on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram. Articles on this site update with each film.

Topics

The channel currently covers three pillar topics — Private Equity Bankruptcies, Tech Founder Frauds, and Pharma Fraud and Public Harm — with new pillars planned for European banking failures, retail private-label collapses, and infrastructure overruns.

Editorial standards

Every claim of fact in a Bankrupt Giants film is sourced to a primary document (court filing, SEC document, regulatory filing) or to on-the-record reporting in a major outlet (NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, AP, NPR). Sources are listed in the description of each YouTube video and on the corresponding page on this site. Editorial commentary is identified as such. News footage is used under U.S. fair-use doctrine for commentary purposes.