Film

American Casino

20091h 28mDocumentary

Director: Leslie Cockburn
Year: 2009

When you are in Wall Street's casino, you play by their rules.

“I don’t think most people really understood that they were in a casino” says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman. “When you’re in the Street’s casino, you’ve got to play by their rules.” This film finally explains how and why over $12 trillion of our money vanished into the American Casino.

Top cast

Ben Bernanke

Self

Sheila Dixon

Self - Mayor of Baltimore

Phil Gramm

Self

Henry Paulson

Self

Henry Waxman

Self

Directed by

Leslie Cockburn

Written by

Leslie Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn

Produced by

Andrew Cockburn, Tao Ruspoli, Leslie Cockburn