Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse

September. 09,2010

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Financial Crisis

Trailer Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2010

4 Episode

Episode 1 - The Men Who Crashed the World

September. 09,2010

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.

Episode 2 - A Global Tsunami

September. 16,2010

The meltdown's devastation ripples around the world from California to Iceland and China. Facing economic ruin, desperate world leaders are at each other's throats.

Episode 3 - Paying the Price

September. 23,2010

The victims of the meltdown fight back. In Iceland, protesters force a government to fall. In Canada, ripped off autoworkers occupy their plant. And in France, furious union members kidnap their bosses.

Episode 4 - After the Fall

September. 30,2010

Investigators begin to sift through the meltdown's rubble. Shaken world leaders question the very foundations of modern capitalism while asking: could it all happen again?

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