-- NEW YORK and BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Bloomberg Businessweek today announced the new documentary film HANK: Five Years From the Brink will launch exclusively on Netflix on September 16, 2013. The film, co-produced by Bloomberg Businessweek and RadicalMedia, features former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and is timed to the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the start of the global financial crisis.
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HANK: Five Years From the Brink is directed by Academy Award and seven-time Emmy nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger, whose documentaries include the critically acclaimed Brothers Keeper, the Paradise Lost trilogy, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Crude. The film marks the debut production from Bloomberg Businessweek Films, a newly launched initiative that will seek out visual, complex, and emotionally rewarding business stories as original producers and acquirers.
For three weeks in September 2008, Hank Paulson was the one person charged with preventing the collapse of the U.S. economy. In HANK: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he worked to persuade banks, members of congress, and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts-even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible. Paulson also details here why another fiscal crisis is inevitable.
We love bringing thought-provoking documentaries to our members and so to be the premiere home for HANK: Five Years From the Brink is a thrill for us, said Netflix Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos.
Were honored to have HANK seen on such an innovative platform as Netflix, and incredibly fortunate to have been able to partner with the great Joe Berlinger on this documentary, said Bloomberg Businessweek editor and producer, Josh Tyrangiel, who is leading the Bloomberg Businessweek Films initiative.
As a documentary filmmaker for over 20 years, its really exciting to find novel ways to reach audiences with a new content creator like Bloomberg Businessweek Films, through an expanding powerhouse like Netflix, said director and producer Joe Berlinger.
HANK: Five Years From the Brink perfectly represents the type of thought-provoking work Bloomberg Businessweek will release, and the new opportunity sponsors will have to be associated with our unique projects, said Paul Bascobert, President of Bloomberg Businessweek.
No one understood financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Yet Paulson wasnt quite the pinstriped banker he appeared to be. In exclusive interviews, Paulson tells of his childhood on a farm in the Midwest, aspiring to be a forest ranger. Paulson was a family man-married to his wife, Wendy, for 40 years-and a devout Christian Scientist with left-leaning politics. After working on his first bailout as a junior staffer in the Pentagon and then in the Nixon White House, Paulson returned with his family to his native Chicago to forge a career at Goldman Sachs. Hank Paulson had refused two previous offers to be Secretary of the Treasury before finally accepting in 2006, not willing to let his fear of failure or his familys distaste of the Bush administration-which Wendy readily admits in separate interviews-stop him from serving his country.
To see the collapse through Paulsons eyes sheds new light on both the crisis that was, and the depression that could have been. HANK: Five Years From the Brink is a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure-and a marriage surviving under unfathomable circumstances.
HANK will be available in the U.S., Canada, UK and Ireland on September 16, 2013, and in the remaining Netflix territories on November 1, 2013. The film will be distributed by Virgil Film and Entertainment. Submarine represented Bloomberg Businessweek for the deals with Virgil and Netflix.
For additional information, please visit: http://www.businessweek.com/hank
About Bloomberg Businessweek
Recipient of the 2012 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Bloomberg Businessweek offers a global perspective, timely insights, and unique stories to a new breed of business leader who has an original vision for the future and a willingness to think differently. Founded in 1929, the magazine is a trusted market leader with a global circulation of over 980,000 each week and is available in more than 150 countries. Bloomberg Businessweek covers the business world like no one else can by drawing on more than 2,400 journalists in 146 bureaus across 72 countries. The award-winning Bloomberg Businessweek+ app is available on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
About Netflix Inc.
Netflix is the worlds leading Internet television network with more than 37 million members in 40 countries enjoying more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series. For one low monthly price, Netflix members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.
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-- NEW YORK and BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Bloomberg Businessweek today announced the new documentary film HANK: Five Years From the Brink will launch exclusively on Netflix on September 16, 2013. The film, co-produced by Bloomberg Businessweek and RadicalMedia, features former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and is timed to the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the start of the global financial crisis. 
