Fail State (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.
- Date of release
- 2018-10-19
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Alex Shebanow
Casting
- 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)
Interesting facts
Fail State is a 2017 feature-length documentary film chronicling the public policy decisions and marketing ploys that contributed to the growth of predatory for-profit colleges in the 2000s.
Production
Shebanow initially began filming Fail State as a documentary about student loan debt but the collapse of Corinthian Colleges shifted his focus to the way that federal aid had fueled the growth of predatory schools, while investment in public higher education declined.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- The Curse of the Dragon 1993 · ★ 7.2
- Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 2022 · ★ 7.2
- Come See Me in the Good Light 2025 · ★ 7.1
- My Mom Jayne 2025 · ★ 7.9
- Marvel's Behind the Mask 2021 · ★ 7.0
- Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life 2017 · ★ 6.4
- A Toxic Love Story 2026 · ★ 6.4
- Drew: The Man Behind the Poster 2013 · ★ 7.0
- Lionel Messi: Destiny 2023 · ★ 7.8
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 · ★ 7.8
- Harmontown 2014 · ★ 6.6
- No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad 2013 · ★ 8.5