
Based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the film explores the lengths to which the company went in order to. Alex Gibney, the director, is known to the world as last-year's Oscar winner for Taxi to the Dark Side and within the Atlantic as the brother of our colleague James Gibney. Alex Gibney examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut. Documentary film and Netflix Original focused on the 3D printing revolution. Worth seeing a first time - or a second or third, with the new eyes of 2009. Similar movies like Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room include Startup. You'll also wonder why a guy named Lou Pai is not as notorious as the rest of them - and how he escaped with his fortune mainly intact (and accompanied by what the film refers to as his "stripper girlfriend"). Watch Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room Prime Video.

Director Alex Gibney depicts the rise and fall of Enron in a way that frames its leaders as some of the more tangible villains.

Also: if you happened to be living in California during the Enron-intensified induced rolling blackouts of nearly a decade ago, as I was, you will find yourself wishing that mob justice could have been applied to the Enron team. The story behind the infamous Enron scandal. Gauging from the reactions to our first two collections of 12 mind-blowing documentaries to watch on Netflix, it's about time for another set.
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And - the part that really got my attention - the second-tier villains in the Enron story, the enablers and blind-eye-turners for the active fraud Enron had underway, included many that have emerged in full villainy since then, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and boosterish business journalists prominent among them. But the fundamental dynamics of the fraud are very, very similar to what we've heard about from a dozen other institutions in the past year.
