Award-winning director David Sington presents the story of the 2008 financial credit crisis that brought suffering to millions.

Forsaking easy explanations of greedy bankers and incompetent regulators, this investigation goes to the root causes of the USA’s and UK’s deluded belief that everyone could be rich and property prices would rise forever.

The Flaw, which premiered at Sundance 2011, features Democrat Henry Waxman skewering the dithering Alan Greenspan in front of a House committee. Unchecked capitalism, the growing inequality of incomes, the gap between the super-rich and the rest - and even sheer stupidity, are laid bare as major factors.

The question arising - why are the perpetrators of the mess now entrusted with the lucrative task of clearing it up?

*Available in HD

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Festivals and Awards

Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival 2011
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011

Reviews

“Going out of its way to make economic theory and practice digestible to lay audiences.”
Variety

““Smart and entertaining documentary… Sington has cleverly taken complex, often abstract concepts and made them accessible.”
The Hollywood Reporter