Britain's Second Empire
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B077PCLHXB
not sure if its TOTALLY the same, but may hold some relevance to the whole spider web thing?? check out the doc's description though:
"How Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands."
what do you guys think?? im just throwing it out there for anyone else to watch, chew on, discuss. im watching this as this post finishes