Inside Job

Inside Job is a documentary about the 2008 global financial crisis and the years leading up to it. Through research and interviews with financiers, politicians and journalists, it examines how deregulation, risky financial products and close ties between the finance industry, government and academia contributed to a collapse that cost millions of people their homes and jobs. The film also shows how the crisis spread beyond the United States and affected economies around the world.

Charles Ferguson directed and co-wrote the film with Chad Beck and Adam Bolt, and produced it with Audrey Marrs and Kalyanee Mam. Matt Damon narrates. On-camera participants include hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, therapist Jonathan Alpert and Christine Lagarde, then France's finance minister, alongside archival footage of political figures. The film runs 109 minutes and was made for about 2 million dollars, a small budget relative to its worldwide box office of roughly 8 million dollars.

The film drew strong notices from critics, earning a rating of 8.3/10 from 147 reviews, while audiences were also positive: 8.2/10 on IMDb from 83,000 votes and 7.7/10 on TMDB from just over a thousand votes. It remains the best-known of Ferguson's documentaries and is often cited among the notable films about the financial crisis.