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Format:

DVD, Streaming Video, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Inside the meltdown [videorecording] / produced by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser ; reported by Jim Gilmore ; written and directed by Michael Kirk ; a FRONTLINE co-production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Bear, Stearns & Co.

Fannie Mae Foundation.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

Lehman Brothers.

Financial crises -- United States.

Bank failures -- United States.

Mortgages -- United States.

Mortgage loans -- United States.

Subprime mortgage loans -- United States.

Housing -- United States -- Finance.

Banks and banking -- United States.

Foreclosure -- United States.

Stock exchanges -- United States -- History.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Economic conditions.

Other Author:

Kirk, Michael.

Gilmore, Jim.

Wiser, Mike.

Rhodes, Peter.

Lyman, Will. 1948-

Kirk Documentary Group.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

PBS Home Video.

Other Title:

Frontline (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast on Feb. 17, 2009, as an episode of the PBS television series Frontline.

Editor, Peter Rhodes ; director of photography, Ben McCoy ; original music, John E. Low.

Narrator, Will Lyman; commentators include Joe Nocera, Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Alan Greenberg, David Faber, Kate Kelly, Bill Bamber, Jeffrey Lane, Bryan Burrough, Gretchen Morgenson, Jon Hilsenrath, Alan Schwartz, John Cassidy, Paul Krugman, Mark Landler, Charles Duhigg, Mark Gertler, Peter Schiff, Thomas Ollquist, Michael Petrucelli, Adam Davidson, Michael Greenberger, Nick Ashooh, Martin Feldstein, Sheila Bair.

DVD; Region 1; Stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Introduction -- First tremors -- Deal to save Bear Stearns -- Next crisis: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac -- Let Lehman fail -- As markets start crashing -- Contagion goes global -- Credits.

ISBN:

9780793670659

0793670659

Publisher Number:

FRL62708

Other Number:

317072145

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

244444

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 338.542 Inside t

Medium:

[videorecording]