Bitcoin all-time high
From $0 in 2009 to a globally recognized financial asset.
The Bitcoin Rebellion Tells the Whole Story
The Bitcoin
Rebellion
The financial revolt that changed everything.
The film
Shot. Cut.
Ready.
A completed, independently financed feature film developed from first-hand experience of the financial and technological shift it depicts.
Why now
$1.3+ Trillion.
The audience
already exists.
The Bitcoin story spans 18 years. Trillions moved. Power shifted. More than 500 million people participated. The complete dramatization of this history has never been produced at prestige scale—until now.
See the rebellionInstitutional Bitcoin ETF inflows
Wall Street's reversal is now part of modern financial history.
Global crypto owners
A worldwide audience larger than the population of the United States.
Fastest-growing asset
An illustrative $10,000 investment in 2010 grew to approximately $2.38 billion.
Market and ownership figures are rounded and current through July 2026. Historical-return illustration varies by purchase date. Sources include Crypto.com market-sizing research and published U.S. spot-Bitcoin ETF flow data.
Official trailer
See the rebellion.
Original production footage from the completed feature.
The complete body of work
Three formats.
One body of work.
Feature film
The Film
A completed 1-hour, 47-minute dramatic feature, professionally directed and produced with a full cast and crew. Two trailers completed. E&O insurance in place.
Complete · July 2026Television
The Series
All ten Season One television scripts are complete.
All scripts completePublishing
The Novel
A completed 120,000-word novel that provides the literary foundation for the project and its expansion.
Manuscript completeCreated and fully funded
The film and the related body of work were independently financed and created by Sovereign Truth Media LLC. All rights are owned and controlled by Sovereign Truth Media LLC, with no co-financiers or third-party approval rights.
From the production
Real frames.
Real production.
Production stills and behind-the-scenes photographs from the completed film.
The production in progress on a practical studio set.
Production artwork from The Bitcoin Rebellion.
The people and institutions behind the story.
A completed feature and the production behind it.
A full trading floor at scale.
The whitepaper announcement shown on screen.
Hard ideas made human, direct to camera.
Period-accurate production design from Bitcoin’s frontier years.
Title cards ground the cast in the institutions of 2008.
The journalist follows the money.
Shot on real locations, coast to coast.
The period is recreated down to the browser.
A cast of dozens carries the story.
The collapse reached everyone. The film shows it face by face.
The movement takes the streets. The film’s largest set piece.
The completed film in front of an audience.
The production team together on set.
A scene captured during principal photography.
Cast and crew on a practical studio set.
The film’s technology environments created for camera.
The production team reviewing a scene.
Principal photography in progress.
A practical interview set built for the production.
The camera and cast at work.
Proven audience
Stories about money and power travel.
Comparable films and series have shown sustained demand for character-driven stories about finance, technology and institutions.
2015 · Paramount / Plan B
The Big Short
Financial-crisis drama2010 · Columbia
The Social Network
Technology origin story2018–2023 · HBO
Succession
Power and institutions2023 · Sony
Dumb Money
Retail investors and Wall Street
Creator / Writer / Executive Producer
James Notaris
James Notaris is an attorney and CPA whose career has spanned the 2008 financial collapse, energy and digital infrastructure, private equity and venture capital, and the institutional rise of Bitcoin.
He founded Sovereign Truth Media LLC, wrote the novel and television scripts, and created and financed the feature film.
Project counsel
Schuyler “Sky” M. Moore
Partner · Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP
Sky has practiced in the entertainment industry since 1981, representing producers, sales agents, distributors and financiers. He has handled some of Hollywood’s largest film-financing transactions and was named a lifetime “Legal Legend” by The Hollywood Reporter.
Entertainment counsel to Sovereign Truth Media and The Bitcoin Rebellion.