Documentary from 2010. Sheldon Adelson is the man who builds the world's largest casinos. Once, he was a poor boy from Boston but today the third richest man in the United States. Join a world that does not look at the problems of gambling, but the most exclusive of the world's casinos.
24 Nov 2017
Ramsey Denison investigates a terrifying pattern of police corruption and discovers that behind the shimmering surface of Las Vegas lies a police department with individuals willing to go to any lengths to cover up crimes.
08 Mar 1973
Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.
09 May 2004
Documentary tracing the attempts of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institue students to become rich playing blackjack at casinos throughout the United States and the attempts of the casinos' management to thwart them.
01 Jan 2009
Die-hard regulars at a Canadian bingo hall, hope their next card will be the one that wins them the jackpot.
05 May 2023
Yukio Fujiki is a 91 years old prominent conservative figure in Yokohama, who organizes the distribution of the port and is well-connected with the people of the local political and business world. However, in 2019, Fujiki voiced his opposition to the administration's attempts to bring casinos to Yokohama and embarked on the last fight of his life to protect his own city from the expansion of the gambling industry.
30 Mar 2017
Sports betting in the USA is booming and this doc features those who know how it all began, up to how it became the huge business it is today. Narrated by Trip Mitchell, insight is provided by baseball's Pete Rose, oddsmaker Dennis Tobler, Pinnacle's Jessica Davis, historians Richard Davies & Eugene Moehring, Buzz Daly, Frank Cullotta, Joe D'Amico, Jim Bobbera, Norm Kelley and "Vegas Dave" Oancea.
01 Jan 1994
Tips and tricks on how to win on 80's and 90's slot machines!
12 Aug 2017
Watch the drama unfold when the city of Las Vegas blows up the town's impromptu movie set.
14 Nov 2005
Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well as everyday citizens in search of the American Dream chronicle how Las Vegas transformed itself from remote frontier way station into the Depression-era "Gateway to the Hoover Dam," then into the mid-century gangster metropolis known as "Sin City," and finally into a family vacation destination and the fastest-growing city in the United States.
15 Nov 2005
The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.
Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of pop art, an outdoor museum of American culture. What is the story behind the neon lights and fantastical buildings? What will its future be in these tough times? Alan Yentob takes a mob tour and talks to producers and performers about the golden days when Sinatra and Dino held the stage, and the wise guys called the shots.
01 Jan 1995
Top gaming instructor David Wilhite shows you how to play to win at Blackjack!
30 Aug 2022
Years after serving time for betting on games he officiated, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy revisits the scandal that shook up the league.
11 Sep 2025
For a hundred years, the former fishing village of Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave in Switzerland, has drawn enormous wealth from a monumental casino. There is hardly a resident who has not benefited economically or socially from it. But the bankruptcy of this colossus destroys all prospects and autonomy. The reopening gives the village one last chance.
01 Apr 2003
When Michelle Wong's brother, Philip, committed suicide at the age of 36, she felt that she had to find out why. Her film, Pieces of a Dream, is her attempt to understand her brother's death and to deal with his loss.
01 Jan 2023
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01 Jan 2010
Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man. For the majority of his adult life Rocky has hustled bowling for a living. Here is his story. A short documentary about booze, broads and bowling.
02 Jun 2016
An expedition to the dirty abyss of professional sports. The award winning investigative journalist Benjamin Best (CNN Journalist of the Year 2011) takes a global look behind the scenes at the colourful world of sports and exposes the bitter taste behind the multi-billion sports business.
29 Feb 1980
The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
04 Feb 2015
An in depth look at the full effect of State Lotteries on the players and the people around them.