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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A tightly contained financial-crisis procedural, built from urgent overnight meetings, opaque risk calculations, and morally compromised decisions by people trying to stay ahead of a collapse.
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Why this pick
Shares the 2008 crash’s institutional failures and insider perspective, but makes the mechanisms legible through sharp, darkly comic investigation and mounting outrage.
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Why this pick
This Korean IMF-crisis drama similarly follows officials, bankers, and ordinary people as confidential negotiations and political choices determine the scale of a national economic emergency.
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Why this pick
Another fact-based corporate power drama driven by boardroom maneuvering, private negotiations, and outsized financial stakes rather than conventional action.
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Why this pick
For the analytical side of the same subject, this documentary rigorously traces the incentives, deregulation, and interconnected decision-makers behind the financial meltdown.
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01 / THE STORY
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Henry Paulson
Dick Fuld
John Mack
Second Reporter
Lloyd Blankfein
Dan Jester
Christopher Cox
Herself
