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Narrated by Peter Coyote. How can America's 7th largest corporation crumble into dust? This shameful expose rips open the nation's darkest corporate scandal, one that left thousands of investors and dedicated employees with virtually nothing as a tiny handful of top execs walked away with billions. This inside story, based on the book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, will make your blood boil! 2005/color/110 min/R.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 10001
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 17, 2006
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Magnolia Home Ent
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000C3L2IO
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
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Excellent Story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2022

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Well written and directed story, of the rise and downfall, of one of the largest companies in US history.

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Reece

You'd think we could learn... fun fact!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022

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Elizabeth Holmes dad was an enron finance executive.

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Independent_forever

Showed how disconnected those execs truly were (and are)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2022

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"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul" THAT should be the title of this documentary too. Good overview of a very complicated fraud perpetrated on millions of people by these criminals. Shows the damage done by selfish, greedy, destructive and sometimes evil people.

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Awesome!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2022

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It is always great to learn from past mistakes! The Enron scandal is one to learn from! I like how in depth this goes with the accounting side of things as well as the annual reports that they were messing with. Overall, such nice information to know about.

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PBinJC

You will never look at finance people the same way again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2014

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Tom Wolfe once said (I'm paraphrasing) that people show up in limousines on Wall Street to take advice from people who arrived by subway. When online self service trading websites were just taking off, one commercial asked, "If your broker is so good, why is he still working?" The same can be said about all of the people on Wall Street. Many do not know as much as they need to know and you will be reminded of that when you watch this. You will see video of Wall Street executives getting excited about what is clearly smoke and mirrors (as we all know now.) But we all know now because of this documentary, and it is something the Wall Streeters should have known then. But the people on Wall Street are not as savvy as we think they are, nor as knowledgeable as we need them to be; especially when it comes to our best interests. You do have the brilliant ones who create the schemes that make themselves billions. They do not work for you. Their firms probably do not work for you either, even if you think so. Brokers who work for broker/dealers are told what products and securities to sell. It does not mean they are bad products or bad investments. But it is limited to what the firm is selling. It is like going into a Cadillac dealership. They will try to sell you a Cadillac. It will be a nice car and hopefully suit your needs. But if you really needed a different kind of car altogether, a Cadillac dealer will not sell it to you. They do not have it in their inventory. The same is true for Wall Street Brokers. This is the difference between a broker and an Money Manager or Advisor. An Advisor has a higher standard and must take into account your entire financial situation. They are not supposed to push a particular security or type of product on you, but instead find the most appropriate. It is like a car dealership that sells every type of car. They will try to match you with the most suitable. And for those considering an annuity. I will not comment on annuities as a product - good or bad. But I will just say that when you buy an annuity, the broker will pull out a bottle of Champaign. The fees they are paid on an annuity are outrageous and come from you. And if they convince you at some point to switch annuities, they will go home high as a kite. Switching people from one annuity to another is like manna from heaven for a broker. And you pay all the fees. Annuities have shocking fees associated with them. And broker love to sell them for this reason. they make so much money. There may be times when an annuity is suitable. I cannot say. But if you buy one, know why, know how much you are paying in fees, and know why it is the best choice for whatever it is you are trying to accomplish. If you do not understand something, it is not you; it is them. If it does not seem to make sense, make them explain it over and over and over. It's your money and if they don't have the time to make it clear, either it is because they can't or they won't. Either way, if you do not understand it, stay away. You're being Enron'd.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2006

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Narrated by veteran actor, Peter Coyote, this DVD is disturbingly real. It reveals the depths to which some people will sink to profit for themselves while bringing misery to others. It was widespread in the company and pathological.

First, Arthur Anderson Consulting signed off on "mark to marketing" accounting. In other words, Enron could report their projected earnings as actual profits. They could "report" profits of millions of dollars that they didn't have. They paid bonuses and other excesses with these projections.

Next, Jeff Skilling was hired by Ken Lay to run the operations of the company. Skilling was a man with fresh, or some would say, grandiose ideas. This is just what Lay wanted--a man of vision. Skilling soon instituted promotions and bonuses for traders who produced more than the other guy. Creating a classic cutthroat environment, the producers were given phenomenal bonuses while their less successful counterparts were shown the door. These were all being given on projected earnings.

One rebel market analyst from Merrill Lynch would not give Enron a "strong buy" rating. Skilling contacted Merrill Lynch who promptly fired the errant employee, and Enron gave Merrill Lynch a fifty million dollar contract.

Enter Andy Fastow another Enron executive in the mold of Jeff Skilling who managed to set up dummy corporations which were paying Enron. Several prominent banks knew of the scheme and went along with it. (You may even have your money in one of them.)

Another Enron executive, named Pi was an executive cuthroat who knew his predilections and his limits. He left the company after making $250,000,000 and married his pregnant, stripper girlfriend.

Skilling, Fastow, and Lay attempted new investments in energy and other ventures which flopped miserably. The DVD shows how they were beginning to lose their ability to think of new ideas to fool the public and the investors who never saw an Enron balance sheet or earnings statement.

The most chilling part of this is the Enron traders who were able to create rolling black-outs through California. They invested in the stock of power companies before they called the power companies and asked them to shut down the power for hours at a time. This, in turn, created demand, which increased the price of the stock and their profits. The real chill is you hear what is tantamount to their psychopathic laughter at the misery and hardship they helped create throughout the state. In another instance, these parasites actually began cheering when a forest fire shuts down a power plant. Their "profit cheering" with no regard for the misery of the people without power may make the viewer want to drop these guys from a tall building.

It gets even better--I mean, worse. Ken Lay said he didn't know what was going on. Interviewees told Ken Lay what his traders were doing. None were fired or disciplined. How did he not know? He, like other top executives sold off almost all their shares in the company just before the bad news hit. The common worker who had his or her 401K tied up in Enron stock was not allowed to sell it as the company and its stock value collapsed. They lost everything. One common power company worker who was interviewed said that his pension went from $340,000 to $1,200. This was painful to listen to.

One last thing, these "Enron entrepreneurs" fought tooth and nail to keep California's energy laws deregulated. Everything has its positives and negatives. If free market enterprise is unchecked it does lead to invention and creativity. It also leads to greed and excess.

Maybe a little regulation is not such a bad thing.

Update: Lay and Skilling have been found guilty. Their lawyer fees, expensive. The verdict, priceless!

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KeSean S.

For class

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2022

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Nice cover of corporate America and how they destroy our daily lives and ruin the economy.
Follows a specific that also led to housing market collapse

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Mrs. Sarah Crabtree

Scammers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2019

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I have been going through some of my old books and DVDs and came across this little beauty, which took me down memory lane to my own experiences in the banking world. As a teen, I exposed a fraud in the branch I was working. Instead of being rewarded for my vigilance, I was bullied and threatened, and a bloke allegedly from the Met came and gave me a good talking to. Although I stayed in banking for a few more years, the experience had eroded my confidence, I was always conscious of being watched, and I was never promoted.

Recently one of the broadsheets cited yet another example of a pensioner being conned and threatened into perpetrating a fraud. Puzzlingly, his bankers played along, and it was only the intervention of the man's son that ensured his father was reimbursed. In the comments following this article, people were asking why don't investigative journalists find out what's going on. The people behind these sophisticated scams are clever and in-the-know. They are not cut from the same cloth as the Fifties gangs, whose thugs basically went round beating people up. The banks know more than they are letting on. IMHO there is a link with the callers who ring you out of the blue trying to convince you that you had a car accident. Somebody is selling your phone number to these scammers. I was targeted a number of times by a firm who tried to bully me into saying 'yes' on the phone to their questions, which evidently can trigger off an identity fraud. Most people who manage their personal accounts are savvy enough to be on the ball, but we all have our weaker moments, and these professional scammers know it. Be careful out there, people!

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MetropolitanJ

A modern day Tower of Babel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 11, 2011

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Ok, sorry that title was really pretentious!

For a film which uses mostly facts and statistics (as well as testimony and interviews) this film is really compelling!

It has taught me so much that I didn't know! The Energy conglomerate of Enron is documented from it's origins, right down to it's fall and the aftermath. Showing how Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andy Fastow have manipulated not only the company but the government to play to their corruption and greed. Some of the stuff that these guys actually got up to is incredible! In one instance they lost a billion dollars from a cancelled project in India, but they decided to give themselves and the other higher ups bonuses from it anyway. It also shows how they treated the company as their own personal back account, paying a man named M.YASS a million dollars. I'll let you figure that one out.

You know in films or T.V shows where they have those really extravagant business retreats like quad biking? These guys were the precursors!

Overall, this is a really shocking, yet revelatory film (on the same level as "Bowling for Columbine") which will leave you asking why.

markr

fraud on a gigantic scale

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 7, 2015

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Very enjoyable and informative documentary covering one of the largest frauds in corporate history. Enron were an energy company with big ideas - as they failed to meet their ambitions they employed numerous artifices and frauds to hide the truth until it all imploded in spectacular fashion. The DVD features footage of all the main characters this drama, and makes clear that even the smartest of people are happy to fool themselves ( and everyone else) at times - and it is all the rest of us who take the pain for their arrogance and hubris

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Zdenek Hanzlik

Good documentary but it is as relief valve - for fart

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2015

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I do not know how someone could enjoy story of theft and American economic acrobatic Friedmanism and Reganism executed by $ fellow travellers. This is what the whole economic civilization has to chew . In China such operators would be shot and usable organs would be sold to poor USA for recycling - would it be not fair ? Bush Rumsfeld Cunda Rice Ashcroft , Soros , Wolfowitz Pearle Lieberman all are the same they should be hanged .

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essexscanman

It is bad enough that a company can do this sort of ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2018

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It is bad enough that a company can do this sort of thing. It is stunning how all the companies that are supposed to act as the checks and balances completely failed apart from taking huge sums because if they don't the guy down the road is willing to ignore these things. As a documentary, it should be compulsory viewing for all in financial management of any degree.

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