Hank: 5 Years from the Brink

6.7
2013 1 hr 26 min Documentary

For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, Congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts - even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible. Directed by Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy, Some Kind of Monster), the film features Paulson, and his wife of 40 years, Wendy. it's a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure - and a marriage under unfathomable circumstances.

  • Cast:
    Henry Paulson

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Reviews

Hellen
2013/09/01

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Exoticalot
2013/09/02

People are voting emotionally.

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VeteranLight
2013/09/03

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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FirstWitch
2013/09/04

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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dale-51649
2013/09/05

As someone who also went to Harvard, I can tell you that not all experiences are the same. There are the STEM majors, pre meds and med students, who work their asses off or fail. On the other hand there are the MBA and pre biz crowd , and Hank is of the ladder elk. He brags about not having to study hs second year at the B school- must be nice....; so the "masters of the universe" have no clothes or work ethic... Preppy Wendy really "preps out" as she humble brags her way through the piece, "She never had to pay for a dinner and was bored with dating" . Apparently she was so hot guys were all over her, but none of them were good enough for her, until HANK. She never wanted HANK to take the high profile jobs, like those actors who claim they were dragged into entertainment kicking and screaming, so above it all.....If she never wanted it, maybe they should give the money back?Speaking of boring humblebrags, she gives herself goosebumps by describing how Hank was home in time to bathe the kids on the 4:30..... Why? Nanny on furlough? So...Hank didn't even have to work long hours to make the old hundreds of millions of tax shielded dollars? NICEEEE.... Oh yea, real salt of the earth couple here. I guess those of us who worked the 14 hour days in medicine are suckers then? I know I know, IT WAS FOR THE CHILDREN!Why didn't they talk about Goldman Sachs sordid history? Or, the fact that investment bankers didn't make that much when Hank started in it, but by the time he left.....Unless you consider orders of magnitude more than doctors low pay, yea, that changed.

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Tommy
2013/09/06

Hank Paulson, who was named as one of the top 25 people who plunged the world into an "Economic Meltdown" in 2008 by Time magazine, gets a face-lift in this movie produced by his buddy, Michael Bloomberg of Bloomberg Businessweek. Not only have other documentaries shown he was the catalyst that drove the recession in 2008 onward, it was his idea to bail out the banks that proved to be the worst, possible decision ever made. Now that Paulson, Bloomberg, and Thomas Steyer are all on the same page with their global-warming mambo-jumbo, the first thing that needed to be done was repair Paulson's terrible public image by making this movie. For a more accurate view, watch Inside Job or Too Big to Fail for a more critical, truthful portrayal of this windbag. This movie is nothing more than nanny Bloomberg's shallow attempt at giving Paulson a public do-over.It's also no secret that when he became treasury Secretary, he sold nearly $500 million in Goldman Sachs stock without paying a single penny in capital gains taxes (or any taxes for that matter). In July 2006, "Henry Paulson liquidated 3.23 million shares of Goldman, roughly 1% of the entire company, in a one-time public sale." That left Paulson with a tax-free gain of $491 million. Read that again: $491 million free and clear. Without this loophole, Paulson would have been liable for more than "$200 million worth of state and Federal capital gains taxes." Why? In 1989, the government created a "one-time loophole that gives the political candidate the ability to liquidate his or her entire portfolio without paying a dime in capital gains taxes." The loophole only applies to the President, Vice President and cabinet Secretaries. Congress does not qualify. The rich DO get richer, as did Paulson, who is now parlaying his fame (infamy?) by teaming up with nanny Bloomberg Productions and scare-tactics Steyer, the phony triptych of the modern world.

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wilson trivino
2013/09/07

Even as we are slowly creeping out of the great recession, close to a depression I don't really understand the dynamics of what happen. I also wonder why no one ever took the blame or went to jail. The big guys got bailed out and the little guy got holding the back. In this fascinating documentary, Hank, Five Years From the Brink, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson under the Bush administration takes you an insider's account of what actually happen. It follows pretty much the way his own memoir reads. This movie also points to the way that our leaders pretty much muddle through our problems. This market was falling, the economy was in the tank, and the government just pumped money in to hold up the failing institutions. You don't need a degree in political science to follow the story, just sit back and listen to this man who was there. I saw this film as part of the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival.

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cargo456
2013/09/08

A film is a well directed, beautifully edited piece of cinematography. A joy to watch... if you're death, retarded or come from a remote village somewhere on the Ohuahu islands in the Pacific. An absolute one sided view of a one man actions with no opposite opinion being presented. Even though most of the economic community think that the actions of Hank Paulson did more harm to the world's economy than anything else and Mr. Paulson should be convicted of treason, he is portrayed as a larger that life Jesus like figure. Once again I would recommend to watch this movie only for people who do understand what had happened during this period of time in world's economy. Otherwise we will end up with a false perception of the processes happening in the economy now as a result of a reckless use of taxpayer's money to save several banksters from bankruptcy. Bringing the economy back to the dark ages for the slow and painful recovery and a deflation spiral we're experiencing now.

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