National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

Directed by Sam Mendes and Matthew Amos

With Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles, Adam Godley and Gary Bland

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.