The Corporation
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Corporation
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 5, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn & Chris Barrett | |
Directed by | Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott | |
Narrated by | Mikela J. Mikael | |
Screenwriting by | Joel Bakan | |
Composition by | Leonard J. Paul | |
Produced by | Bart Simpson | |
Executive Production by | Mark Achbar |
Entertainment Reviews:
[The filmmakers] make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie.
Premiere
[T]his film will make your blood boil. Essential.
Uncut
Rating: 2/5 --
This documentary's extra-long running time and a narrator who sounds like a sedated Star Trek computer won't win many converts.
Arizona Republic
[A] smart, brooding documentary....THE CORPORATION is a dense, complicated and thought-provoking film...
New York Times
The undercurrent of this exhaustive critique is really all about good and evil, and in what ways often sordid human history is determined, not as a product of malice, but by the most typical people who could care less.
Long Island Press
Rating: 4/5 --
This is all rigorous, challenging stuff.
Full Review
BBC.com
This smart, informative and lively polemic makes a strong case for viewing the corporation--which enjoys the legal status of an individual--as a psychopath run amok.
Full Review
Newsweek
Product Description:
THE CORPORATION is a well-organized and deeply fascinating documentary about the growing prominence of large global businesses, and the way that their decisions are impacting the world. The film shows how corporations have ballooned in size and power since the industrial revolution, and explains the laws and loopholes that allow them to remain nearly unaccountable for their actions. If they break a law, they are willing to admit guilt and pay the fine, because the profits outweigh the penalties. Therefore, they continue to cause serious environmental problems by dumping waste into rivers and oceans and by depleting natural resources, resulting in irreversible damage to the earth which also poses a serious threat to human life. Beyond environmental issues, the film shows how corporations exploit underpaid laborers in third world countries, violate basic human rights, make deals with foreign countries who are known enemies of the U.S., and in some instances perpetuate fascist regimes. Valuable, informative talking-head commentary comes from a diverse group including Ray Anderson, CEO of carpet manufacturer Interface; Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell; Dr. Vandana Shiva, feminist and ecologist; Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winning economist; Marc Barry, corporate spy; Joe Badaracco, professor of business ethics at Harvard; and activists Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Michael Moore. Providing useful references to major news stories that illustrate various corporate developments, and good information about how the system works, THE CORPORATION empowers viewers and shows them that they can realistically enact change. For that reason, this documentary makes real progress, encouraging viewers to take the world's future into their own hands and away from corporations whose sole interest is profit.
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- UPC: 795975106535
- Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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