Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis

'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

This Documentary is made as good as you can make it about a very big problem that was felt all around the world. What is more important then the artistic perspection is the story, and for those of us who care (US or non- US), to know how the crysis started, and how efforts were put in to downsize it's effects! It's presented from the inside, from the Government's perspective, and if you put politics and masses psychology aside, you will get a real feel about the effects of the actions that some people make for the greater good.

Really professional documentary with all the key players involved, certainly giving me an insight into the motivations and hard work behind keeping the US and probably the world economy afloat. However...what was disappointing was the lack of challenge to the actions that took place, the lack of a counter view. All we got was the acknowledgement that they realised their actions were unpopular, but they maintained they were necessary.

The government, financial watchdogs and banks caused the recession due to a combination of actions. Successive governments starting with Reagan and leading to the present day have removed the "checks and balances" that were in place to prevent another depression. Where are the consequences for these people?

• How can any system & country be in a situation where a private company can destroy the economy and create misery for millions?
• Why weren't measures and controls in place to ensure this didn't happen?
• Why weren't all the management removed for all the companies involved?
• What measures are now in place?
• What retrospective actions has or is happening to hold the banking system accountable for the misery they created?

Unfortunately, in the end we only got the perspective of the people that caused this crisis and how they went about trying to fix it.

There were other options; how about nationalising the banks to ensure credit was lent to businesses (I know the US is irrationally against any form of socialism, but this was a viable option). A recession is not caused by the banks going bankrupt, it was caused by the lack of "credit" being available to businesses and people, so resolve that issue, rather than just keeping the guilty people in a job and maintaining a morally corrupt system.

Anyway, it was a well-made documentary, just too one sided and no real challenging questions were put to the people who caused the problem.

Sorry but this isn't a documentary, it's BS propaganda that wants to say: we saved you, with your money!

This one sided "documentary" is simply the establishment narrative as told by a bunch of democrat producers. A quick check of their social media reveals them as complete partisans, and its telling that the Bush era conservative who was once derided as Hitler are now one and the same with the Obama democrat. The documentary questions nothing, likely the reason why they were able to get the politicians and talking heads to interview as it puts them in a flattering light, and then at the end comes the snipe the current administration for not going with the program. Slickly produced to be flattering, its simply propaganda to reinforce a convenient narrative questioning nothing.