The Best Financial Crises Documentaries

Money & Business - 29 free documentaries about financial crises.

Start with Before the Great Recession, “The Warning” (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS), then The Wild $50M Ride of the Flash Crash Trader (25 min, Bloomberg Originals). All 29 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on financial crises is The Big Short by Michael Lewis.

• Before the Great Recession, “The Warning” (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Wild $50M Ride of the Flash Crash Trader (25 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• The first modern financial crisis in the globalized world (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Collapse Of Lehman Brothers (46 min, Moconomy)
• The Collapse of Lehman Brothers | The $639 Billion Crash (46 min, Moconomy)
• The Great Contemporary Art Bubble | Fake Prices, Real Greed (58 min, Moconomy)
• How Depression Facilitates Self-Transformation (18 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How To Cope With Depression (9 min, The School of Life)
• The Psychology of Depression - How to Ruin Your Life (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Was The Ramstein Air Show Crash Really An Accident? (46 min, Wonder)
• What Killed The American Middle Class? (28 min, Real Stories)
• Horrific Car Crash Causes Heartbreaking Tragedy | Accident Investigator S2 EP1 (46 min, Wonder)
• Why Planes Crash. (12 min, Real Engineering)
• Inside the Bubble | They Thought They Won: Inside Kerry's 2004 Campaign (77 min, Moconomy)
• Crash: Are we ready for the next crisis? | Finance Out of Control (52 min, Moconomy)
• Red Arrows: The Fatal Crash That Grounded The Elite (45 min, Wonder)
• How A Deadly Crash Was Caused By Dangerous Driving | Accident Investigator S2 EP2 (45 min, Wonder)
• Dangerous Crash Caused By Irresponsible Driver | Accident Investigator S1 EP3 (49 min, Wonder)
• The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression As Seen By The Common Man (Real Stories) (117 min, Real Stories)
• Lessons from Lehman and the Coming Crash (44 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Lehmann - the last cultural diplomat (41 min, DW Documentary)
• When the World Breaks | Great Depression | 1930 (84 min, Moconomy)
• The rise of solar energy - VPRO documentary - 2008 (48 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Corona crash (30 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Planetary Crash That Melted Earth at 7 Miles Per Second (50 min, Wonder)
• Why The Biggest Financial Crash Is Yet To Come (83 min, Real Stories)
• How To Survive A River Crash At -20 Degrees (22 min, Wonder)
• Daddy is a martyr - VPRO documentary - 2008 (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Housing Boom in Billings, 2008 (30 min, Doug A)

Top-Rated Books About Financial Crises

1. The Big Short by Michael Lewis (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
2. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin (4/5) - View on Amazon
3. Crashed by J. Adam Tooze - View on Amazon
4. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis (4.1/5) - View on Amazon