In a poll conducted last week in the CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief, we asked readers for their favorite documentary film about the 2008 financial crisis.
Poll: What is your favorite documentary film regarding the 2008 financial crisis?
Inside Job emerged as the clear favorite, selected by nearly half of the 346 respondents. Interestingly, "other" (16%) was the second choice — indicating that many people preferred another in the slew of crisis-themed documentaries not included in this poll. Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money (12%) was a distant third, and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story (7%) finished fourth.
The distribution of results is dissimilar to results of our earlier poll on readers' favorite finance movie of all time. In that poll, we did not have a dominant favorite, and two movies — Trading Places and Wall Street — had a neck-and-neck competition, with the former managing to edge out the latter.
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4 Comments
So many "others" is probably the result of not having included Margin Call (2011) in the list.
Luis
Thanks for reading this blog post. I included Margin Call in our poll on favourite finance movies and it came out 4th with about 8% of the votes. In this poll, we focused on finance documentaries about the 2008 financial crisis.
People just love the moment of Glen"Inside Job" Hubbard
Jonny
Thanks for reading this blog post. Yes, it does seem that Inside Job is the clear favourite..