The financial crisis is coming to the movies. The BBC is chronicling the collapse of Lehman Brothers in a television drama this fall, while film maker Michael Moore is taking on American International Group in a movie set for release next month.

The mighty Goldman Sachs, meantime, is being lampooned by a former corporate lawyer turned aspiring stand-up comic, who has released a spoof about the Wall Street firm on YouTube and whose mom is doing the publicity for the film.