The global arms trade may be the murkiest, most inscrutable industry on the planet, with billions of dollars and human lives at stake. Based on a 2011 book by Andrew Feinstein, the film forensically examines some of the players – manufacturers, politicians, arms dealers, and the shady go-betweens. Director Johan Grimonprez (Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) spares no one to expose a shadow world of corruption, slush funds, drones, and a whole lot of lies and greed from before the early 80s to the present. Backed up by commentary from Feinstein, himself an arms dealer, hard-hitting journalists and a retired US army colonel, Shadow World grabs a hold of the many tentacles of this industry and tugs, hard.