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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