Too Big to Fail (2011)

Told mostly from the perspective of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (portrayed by the great William Hurt), this film chronicles the 2008 financial crisis, particularly the interactions between the government and the banks. With an incredibly stacked cast, this somehow came across more accessibly than other films I’ve watched about the crisis. It helps that the various lectures trying to put things in layman’s terms were kept in the general flow of the narrative. It also doesn’t pretend at all that the darts thrown blindly at the problem did anything more than put on a temporary band-aid on it, setting up for bigger and worse issues festering and swelling underneath.