The film reconstructs the flash crash of May 6th 2010: a fast and deep U.S. stock market plunge.

Four years ago on September 15, the New York investment bank Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and the financial collapse of 2008 began. The economic meltdown wiped out more than $11bn […]

As the toll of the financial crisis continues to mount, many are looking for its true causes – and finding a crime.

In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; […]