McMillions (2020)

Original title

McMillion$

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 129 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series explains how a man responsible for security at a McDonald's promotion stole winning game pieces. It shows how he got many other people to help him and how investigators eventually caught them.

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What happens

McMillions (stylized as McMillion$) is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices. The series premiered in the US on February 3, 2020, on HBO, and all episodes were made available in the UK on May 27, 2020, on Sky Documentaries. McMillions was nominated for five Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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