The Flaw

The documentary is about the credit bubble that led to the financial crash. It builds that through interviews with economists. Among those speaking is Robert Shiller, who works on the housing market. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, and the economic historian Louis Hyman are in it as well. Two more sides are set beside them. On one are people from inside Wall Street, on the other people the crash harmed. One of the latter is a former economics correspondent who came close to losing his house. The film does not put the crisis down to a single cause; it looks at how several forces worked together. David Sington’s British documentary, seventy eight minutes long, was completed in 2011.