I thought “Inside Job” directed by Charles Ferguson was by far the best documentary on the 2007-8 financial crisis. But a more recent German feature production called "Master of the Universe" does a better job of explaining bank culture and why it is so hard to reform.

"Master of the Universe" is an inside story of a German banker caught up in the frenzies of the 1990s East Asian crisis, the US housing boom, and the recent European sovereign debt crises. The film doesn’t have the thriller pace of "Inside Job," and it feels like the director, Marc Bauder, suffered some of the challenges I did when making my film "The Banking Brain," also on the crisis: No access to banks for good B roll. Nearly impossible to get someone with a bank job to speak on the record. On a tight budget, turning very abstract concepts into images. But Bauder's film is a good effort on an important topic.