Film

Fail State

7.020181h 34mDocumentary

Director: Alex Shebanow
Year: 2018

Subprime goes to college

This in-depth documentary explores the dark side of American higher education, exposing predatory for-profit colleges and the tactics they use to defraud students and the government.

Top cast

Maxine Waters

Self

Tom Harkin

Self

Claiborne Pell

Self (archive footage)

Ted Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Warren

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Alcee L. Hastings

Self (archive footage)

Directed by

Alex Shebanow

Written by

Nicholas Adams

Produced by

Julia Glausi, Terrence Crawford