A fine job

The film's portrait of the hollowing out of Middle America in the aftermath of the crisis provides a consummate precursor to the election of a man who promised to 'make America great again'

Ten years after the event that caused global financial markets to tumble, the 2010 documentary Inside Job, streaming on Netflix, remains the definitive account of the run-up to and the fallout of the demise of Lehman Brothers. 

The film’s success — it won the Oscar for Best Documentary — endures eight years after its release. Directed by Charles Ferguson, it simplified terms like credit default swaps and collateralised debt obligations for the lay audience at a time when even their creators had little idea of the risks these instruments carried.

But its greatest moment was in capturing how a clutch of Wall