Watch We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis

This timely and informative documentary chronicles the history of America's mortgage finance system, from its origins in the 1930s, when the federal government first made available long-term, fixed-rate loans to new American homeowners, to its current state of crisis, after an excess of risky mortgage financing led to the system's collapse, which in turn triggered a wider economic recession.

We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 6 minutes.