Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse — Season 1, Episode 1: The Men Who Crashed the World
Documentary • 43 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street triggers the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. It's left to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, himself a former Wall Street banker, to try and avert further disaster.
About Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse
The story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed. The CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of backstabbing and tension behind the scenes as the world came dangerously close to another Great Depression.