Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room [DVD]

Directed by Alex Gibney, this documentary presents the hidden side of one of the biggest financial scandals in history, in which several high-ranking executives of the seventh largest company in the United States pocketed more than a billion dollars while Its shareholders and employees lost everything. Based on the best-selling book “The Smartest Guys in the Room” by Fortune journalists Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Gibney uses personal statements and audio and video recordings of the company to show the incredible excesses committed by Enron's board of directors and the deep moral void that hid the supposed corporate philosophy. The film's conclusion is painfully obvious as we hear the voices of Enron investors at the same time they were making hundreds of millions of dollars in profits thanks to the California energy crisis. The result is an accurate portrait of Enron investors and their superiors, whose greed set off a tragic domino effect that will be felt in our economy for years.