Syriana (2005)

The closest any major film has come to dramatizing how the US maintains dollar hegemony through Gulf state manipulation.

Based on Bob Baer’s CIA memoir. The genius of this film is that it never explains the system cleanly — because the system isn’t clean. You have to piece together who’s moving what and why, just like the real analysts do.

The assassination subplot mirrors real regime change operations designed to keep oil priced in dollars and flowing through US-aligned channels