Financial Crisis Movies

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing exp...

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his d...

The Argentine crisis of 2001 is about to explode. Felipe, 13, sees how his family environment is cracking due to the economic and political pressures....

For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets...

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several...

Antonis arrives at a hotel resort by the sea. It is wintertime, the hotel is closed and Antonis drifts around alone. He has a lot of time to kill. Unt...

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was bui...

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic cris...

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 miles to track down the people who saw it coming and...

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man...

An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial syste...

After going through an emotional breakdown, a woman tries to realign herself before deciding if she can take on another job.

Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is happy in life but constantly dreams of a bigger project that she...

On 11th January 2008, hired by the City of Cleveland, lawyer Josh Cohen and his team filed a lawsuit against 21 banks, which they held accountable for...

In Spanish, ladrillo means bricks. It used to mean boom, construction, production, speculation. Today, ladrillo means crisis: disused clay pits, facto...

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

“I don’t think most people really understood that they were in a casino” says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman. “When you’re in the Stree...

60 year old woman leaves urban life and goes to live in a village to take care of her grandchildren whose parents now live in America. There she faces...

Documentary about human impact on the world.

25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3 billion)...