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  • 2010-09-09T23:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 1h
  • 2h 55m (4 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-09-09T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Men Who Crashed the World

Series Premiere

1x01 The Men Who Crashed the World

  • 2010-09-09T23:00:00Z43m

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.

2010-09-16T23:00:00Z

1x02 A Global Tsunami

1x02 A Global Tsunami

  • 2010-09-16T23:00:00Z44m

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.

2010-09-23T23:00:00Z

1x03 Paying the Price

1x03 Paying the Price

  • 2010-09-23T23:00:00Z44m

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.

Season Finale

2010-09-30T23:00:00Z

1x04 After the Fall

Season Finale

1x04 After the Fall

  • 2010-09-30T23:00:00Z44m

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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