Given a theme as dramatic and consequential as Americas financial collapse, many filmmakers have risen to the challenge of going behind the headlines to tell important stories and make critical points that need to be shared if were to learn anything from the crisis. Below are some of those important movies and documentaries. Please share your own favorite financial-themed films in the comments below.

Margin Call (2011)

Margin Call. directed by J.C. Chandor, focuses on crises of conscience and lack thereof behind investment banking and the financial meltdown. Chandors original screenplay is up for an Academy Award.

Too Big To Fail (2011)

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Ive seen three of these, and indeed have watched *Inside Job* and *The Warning* three times.  I still get angry when I watch *The Warning*.  It really highlights just what a testosterone fueled catastrophe this has been, and it convinces me that we have not seen the end of financial catastrophe, as the testosterone continues to flow as liberally as ever.

And speaking of movies, I teach an undergrad course in media studies, and one of the films I used to teach as science fiction *Blade Runner* I now teach very differently because it offers us a very interesting representation of life under Corporate Imperialism.  In fact, director Ridley Scott made a second Directors Cut just after the economic crash for just that reason i.e. because he believed the film was just too topical to let it slide quietly into film history.

*Blade Runner* should be required viewing for every banker, every corporate CEO, every politician, every Occupy activist indeed, everybody for you will see what life if like without a government, without any investment in the public sphere, a world where the police force is there to protect corporate interests.

I have found these three weeks of *Moyers and Company* extremely interesting.  Thank you, Bill Moyers, for coming back.

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And thank you, for taking the time to write. I hadnt thought of Blade Runner in years but am ordering it from Netflix today! Maybe I should have Ridley Scott on the show.