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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
— character Gordon Gekko, in the Oliver Stone movie "Wall Street" [1987]
Motion Pictures, Television, Other Media
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 | "Wall Street" [Fox Dec 1987] Bud Fox, a young and very ambitious stock trader, courts the powerful stock speculator Gordon Gekko, who takes the boy under his wing. Bud becomes immersed in the fast life, the big time, but soon is asked to take actions that even he finds offensive • Co-written & directed by Oliver Stone; co-written by Stanley Weiser; starring Michael Douglas {won Oscar & David di Donatello & German & Italian & Jupiter Best Actor awards}, Charlie Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, James Spader, Saul Rubinek & Sylvia Miles Fox widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2008] for $13.99 Fox widescreen color DVD [9/2007] 2 disks for $9.49 Fox color VHS [1/96] out of prodn/many, many used Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [10/93] out of prodn/used {with "Talk Radio" [1988]} full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "60 Minutes: The Bailout" [C.B.S. Sept 2008] 11-minute segment aired 28 Sept 2008; featuring Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson C.B.S. color DVD [10/2008] for $17.95 episode/segment not listed on IMDb |
 | "Frontline: Inside The Meltdown" [P.B.S. Feb 2009] Written & directed by Michael Kirk; reported by Jim Gilmore P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [6/2009] for $18.99 episode credits at IMDb included on the 2013 5-episode "Frontline" DVD below |
 | "Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting" [P.B.S. March 2009]
P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [5/2009] for $18.99 episode credits at IMDb included on the 2013 5-episode "Frontline" DVD below |
 | "Breaking The Bank" [June 2009] episode of P.B.S. "Frontline" [since 1983] TV series Season 27, Episode 16; an investigation of the 2008 banking crisis as reported by Jim Gilmore, with detail of meetings in New York City and in Washington, DC including at the Federal Reserve, at Treasury, before Congress, and at the White House; topics are actions by The Fed, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, TARP funding of 9 top banks, and new President Obama; end of broadcast is at 53:00, followed on YouTube by repeats • Co-produced, written & directed by Michael Kirk; narrated by Mike McNally & Will Lyman; featuring Maria Bartiromo (CNBC), John Cassidy (The New Yorker), Susanne Craig (The Wall Street Journal), Michele Davis (Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury), Chris Dodd (Chairman, U.S. Congress Banking Committee), Charles Duhigg (The New York Times), Dan Fitzpatrick (The Wall Street Journal), Barney Frank (Chairman, U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee), Charles Gasparino (CNBC), Austan Goolsbee (White House economic advisor), Jeb Hensarling (U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee), Jon Hilsenrath (The Wall Street Journal), Simon Johnson (former Chief Economist, I.M.F.), |
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economist Paul Krugman (Princeton University), Mark Landler
(The NewYork Times), Jeffrey Lane (Lehman Brothers), Kenneth Lewis (CEO, Bank of America), Steve Liesman (CNBC), Hugh McColl Jr. (former CEO, Bank of America), bank analyst Paul Miller, author Paul Muolo, Joe Nocera (The New York Times), Andrew Ross Sorkin (The New York Times), Louise Story (The New York Times), John Thain (CEO, Merrill Lynch), Elizabeth Warren (U.S. Congress Oversight Panel); with archive footage of Vice President Joe Biden, Judy Biggert (U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee), Michael E. Capuano (U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee), Maxine Waters (U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee), President Barack Obama, Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary), and Keith Ellison (U.S. Congress Financial Services Committee)
episode credits at IMDb • no episode entry at Wikipedia 1-hour WPBS/P.B.S. Direct color DVD [8/2009] for $14.90 1-hour WPBS/P.B.S. Direct color DVD [8/2009] out of prodn/used included on the 2013 5-episode "Frontline" DVD below watch full episode [11/2017 upload; 1:30:26] online at YouTube |
 | "Frontline: The Warning" [P.B.S. Oct 2009] Written & directed by Michael Kirk; reported by Jim Gilmore P.B.S. Direct color DVD [1/2010] for $18.99 episode credits at IMDb included on the 2013 5-episode "Frontline" DVD below |
 | "Broke: The New American Dream" [Documentary Channel 2009] 'Explores human behavior during the 2007-2009 market crash' • Directed by Michael Covel; featuring 'top traders' David Harding, Larry Hite, Bill Miller, Mark Mobius & Jim Rogers, and Nobel Prize winners Dr. Harry Markowitz & Dr. Vernon Smith Nature Nurture Prodns color DVD [2009] direct from producer via Amazon for $19.99 not listed on IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Two Trillion With A T: How You Bought Wall Street" Special Report [Fox News 14 March 2009] Hosted by Bret Baier; exclusive interviews include George W. Bush, his Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, House Banking Chairman Barney Frank, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, among others Fox News 42-minute color DVD [6/2009] for $19.95 not listed on IMDb • official movie site |
 | "American Ca$ino" documentary feature [indep Aug 2009] This film finally explains how and why the global financial system crumbled from the subprime loan market 'bubble' and over $12 trillion of our money vanished into the pockets of Wall Street titans. Co-written & directed by Leslie Cockburn; co-written by Andrew Cockburn; featuring Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Mayor of Baltimore Sheila Dixon, former Senator Phil Gramm, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson & Congressman Henry Waxman DVD/Blu-ray not available at Amazon • full credits at IMDb • official movie site Working Minds Philosophy Essay #18 "The Stock Market Casino" [Dec 2001] |
 | "The Last Days of Lehman Brothers" [BBC2 U.K. Sept 2009] On a weekend in September 2008, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson summoned the heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks to decide the fate of failing Lehman Brothers, while recently-demoted Lehman CEO Dick Fuld spent the weekend desperately trying to rescue his company through a merger with Bank of America or U.K.-based Barclays. Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - was teetering on the verge of extinction. Directed by Michael Samuels; written by Craig Warner; starring James Cromwell, Ben Daniels, Corey Johnson, Michael Landes, Alex Jennings & James Bolam DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Capitalism: A Love Story" [Dog Eat Dog/Weinstein Oct 2009] Back in 2008, Michael Moore described his next film as being about 'the wonders of capitalism'. However, fate provided him with the 'G.O.P. Meltdown', the still-rolling collapse of the U.S. and worldwide economy. The American Dream is looking like a nightmare for more and more ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down, as families pay the price each day with their jobs, their homes and their savings – the disastrous impact of unregulated corporate dominance and scared politicians seeking re-election over mystified & angry citizens across America. Co-produced, written & directed by & starring Michael Moore; interviewees include Cong. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, Cong. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Wallace Shawn & Elizabeth Warren, with archive footage of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan & Franklin Delano Roosevelt; won 2 awards at the Venice Film Festival Starz / Anchor Bay widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2010] for $24.99 Starz / Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [3/2010] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Plunder: The Crime of Our Time" [Globalvision indep May 2010 release] After his controversial docufilm "In Debt We Trust" [2006] and the book "Plunder" [2008] {above}, director Schechter interviewed bankers of Wall Street and released this film in May 2010, with the companion book "The Crime of Our Time" due in September 2010. produced by Ray Nowosielski, directed by Danny Schechter DVD available on producer website not listed on IMDb • official movie site |
 | "The Crime of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big To Jail" [2010] by Danny Schechter Kindle Edition from Disinformation Books [9/2010] for $9.99 Disinformation Company 8½x5½ pb [9/2010] for $17.96 |
 | "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps" [Fox Sept 2010] A young Wall Street trader teams up with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming financial doom, and to bring to justice the person responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor. Co‑produced by Edward R. Pressman, Oliver Stone & Michael Douglas; directed by Oliver Stone; starring Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin & Frank Langella, cameo by Nouriel Roubini Fox widescreen color Blu-ray [12/2010] for $22.99 Fox widescreen color DVD [12/2010] 2 disks for $15.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
  | "Inside Job" [Sony Pictures Classics Oct 2010] "If you're not enraged by the end of this movie, [then] you haven't been paying attention." — Mary & Richard Corliss, in Time Magazine A comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, thru exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists & academics • Co-produced, written & directed by Charles Ferguson; narrated by Matt Damon; featuring Congressman Barney Frank, Raghuram Rajan, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Paul Volcker, many others; won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, D.G.A. & W.G.A. Awards, New York Film Critics Circle Award Sony Pictures Classics widescreen color DVD [3/2011] for $14.99 credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Too Big To Fail" TV movie [H.B.O. May 2011] Directed by Curtis Hanson; based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin; starring Ed Asner, Kathy Baker, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti {as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke}, Topher Grace, Dan Hedaya, William Hurt {as Hank Paulson}, Matthew Modine, Bill Pullman & James Woods {as Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld} HBO Studios color Blu-ray [not yet released] for $25.99 HBO Studios color DVD [not yet released] for $19.99 full credits at IMDb |
 | "Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought To Save The Financial System – and Themselves" [2009] by Andrew Ross Sorkin, columnist for The New York Times
Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2009] for $13.00 |
 | "The Wall Street Conspiracy" [indep March 2012]
Chronicles a small group of activists who tried to expose the corruption in our financial markets, the rampant fraud on Wall Street known as 'naked short selling', a practice that created billions of counterfeit shares in the stock, bond & futures markets, and the credit default swap market itself. Government agencies and news media did not listen, allowing the collapse of hundreds or even thousands of American companies, costing our country countless jobs, decimating retirement funds, and even flooding the market with fake mortgages • Co-produced & co-written by Mark Faulk; co‑written & directed by Kristina Leigh Copeland; featuring Helen Avery, G. Robert Blakey, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, Wes Christian, Mark Faulk, John Harmer, Lucy Komisar, John O'Quinn, Dave Patch, Darren Saunders, economist Robert Shapiro, Bill Shea, Gerald Smith, economist Susanne Trimbath & Eagletech's Rod Young DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb • official movie site • official trailer [3:43] at Vimeo |
 | "Hard Times: Lost On Long Island" [H.B.O. broadcast July 2012] "The American Dream - Foreclosed" • Although officialdom decreed that the Great Recession was over in mid-2009, the impact continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom worked their way up the corporate ladder, achieving the American Dream, only to see it slip through their fingers • Co-produced & directed by Marc Levin; featuring the families of Alan & Susan Fromm, David & Heather Hartstein, Nick & Regina Puccio, and Mel & Anne Strauss DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Frontline: Cliffhanger - Politics, Personalities, and The Fiscal Cliff" [P.B.S. Feb 2013] Episode 10 of Season 31; how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit Co-produced, co-written & directed by Michael Kirk; co-produced & co-written by Mike Wiser; co-produced by & featuring Jim Gilmore & Arun Rath; narrated by Will Lyman; also featuring Sarah Childress P.B.S. Direct color DVD [4/2013] for $13.99 episode credits at IMDb |
 | "The Economic Meltdown: How America's Fiscal Fallout Triggered A Global Crisis" [P.B.S. June 2013] includes five hour-long episodes from "Frontline" on P.B.S.: "Inside The Meltdown" [Feb 2009], "Ten Trillion and Counting" [March 2009], "Breaking The Bank" [Aug 2009], "The Warning" [Oct 2009], and "Cliffhanger" [April 2013] P.B.S. Direct color DVD [6/2013] 2 disks for $18.99 |
 | "Hank: Five Years From The Brink" [Bloomberg Business Week Sept 2013] 87 minutes from interviews with Henry 'Hank' Paulson and his wife Wendy Co-produced, written & directed by Joe Berlinger Virgil Films & Ent. widescreen color DVD [2/2014] for $19.99 Amazon Instant Video [2/2014] rental $3.99, purchase $12.99 full credits at IMDb |
"Abacus: Small Enough To Jail" [ITVS/P.B.S. May 2017]
 | The only prosecution for bank fraud activity leading up to the 2008 G.O.P. meltdown in 2008 was against a small Chinatown bank which actually had the lowest mortgage default rate of any bank in New York, leading to accusations of racism • Directed by Steve James; featuring Thomas Sung {founder Abacus Federal Savings Bank}, Jill Sung {Abacus bank executive}, Vera Sung {Abacus bank executive}, Neil Barofsky, Ti-Hua Chang, Margaret Colin, Justin Deas, Jiayang Fan, Roman Fuzaylov, Polly Greenberg {D.A.'s offfice}, Linda Hall, Don Lee, David Lindorff, Kevin Puvalowski, Chanterelle Sung, Heather Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Matt Taibbi, Sam Talkin, Cyrus Vance Jr. {N.Y. County D.A.}, Rusty Wing, Yiu Wah Wong, Jessica Woodby-Denema
full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia P.B.S. Direct widescreen color DVD [9/2017] for $11.71 watch 4/2017 official trailer [2:30] at YouTube |
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