Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

Documentary. This film chillingly reveals -- through video and audio tapes of those Darwinian snakes Lay, Skilling, and Fastow with their dog-eat-dog traders -- just how far and deep the perpetual posing and intentional deceptions really ran at Enron. Lay was a close personal friend of the Bush presidents and personally machinated the deregulation of electric power in California (even as he denied such truths) so that his traders could manipulate and hobble the power grid at will -- and then chortle over their every coup. (It's all on tape!) Enron traders were morally compromised people who were told to step on the throat of their own grandmother or their own boss to make millions for the company and themselves; do you think they cared one whit for any of the tens of thousands they defrauded out of their life savings or the millions of citizens they economically raped in California, all to the tune of billions of dollars? The Milgram experiment is even more relevant here than to Abu Graibh because of Enron's drink-the-Kool-Aid cultlike status. This documentary should deeply anger you, no matter what your political affiliation, if you have a conscience of your own. Five stars.