Amazon Empire

To produce Amazon Empire, filmmakers James Jacoby and Anya Bourg conducted fifty-seven on-the-record interviews. The yearlong investigation revealed how Jeff Bezos transformed a small online bookstore into a trillion dollar global empire, profoundly changed consumer habits and retail commerce, and in the process, became the richest person in the world. In this collection of excerpts from interviews with eleven current and former Amazon executives, part of FRONTLINE's ongoing Transparency Project, you can explore first-hand insights into Amazon's rise as a global power, ethical questions surrounding data collection and worker safety, and recent calls to break up Amazon.