The inside story of one of history’s biggest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. A story of corporate greed and CEO hubris which foreshadowed the current financial crises.
It’s fascinating to watch Alex Gibney’s searing investigation of Enron’s corporate malfeasance in the years following the 2008 economic crash. What once looked like a historic reckoning, now feels terrifyingly prophetic. Methodical and damning, it’s one of the great documentarian’s very best films.