Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Collapse (2010)

Season 1

The story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed. The CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of backstabbing and tension behind the scenes as the world came dangerously close to another Great Depression.

Released Sept. 9, 2010 Episode 60 min 2+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.financial-crisis, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series

Production Companies: CBC

Network: CBC Television

Country: Canada
Languages: English

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S1E1 - The Men Who Crashed the World

Greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street triggers the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. It's left to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, himself a former Wall Street banker, to try and avert further disaster.

Sept. 9, 2010, midnight

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S1E2 - A Global Tsunami

The meltdown's devastation ripples around the world from California to Iceland and China. Facing economic ruin, desperate world leaders are at each other's throats.

Sept. 16, 2010, midnight

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S1E3 - Paying the Price

The victims of the meltdown fight back. In Iceland, protesters force a government to fall. In Canada, ripped off autoworkers occupy their plant. And in France, furious union members kidnap their bosses.

Sept. 23, 2010, midnight

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S1E4 - After the Fall

Investigators begin to sift through the meltdown's rubble. Shaken world leaders question the very foundations of modern capitalism while asking: could it all happen again?

Sept. 30, 2010, midnight

Network: CBC Television

Episode Runtime: 60 min.

Season Runtime: 60 min.

Released: Sept. 9, 2010

Last Air Date: Sept. 30, 2010, midnight

Status: Ended

Certification: NR / 2+

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