The Corporation
by Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
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Actor: Carlton Brown, Chris Barrett, Jane Akre, Maude Barlow, Ray AndersonDirector: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL
Producer: Mark Achbar
Writer: Mark Achbar
Producer: Bart Simpson
Producer: Maureen Levitt
Writer: Harold Crooks
Writer: Joel Bakan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
DVD Reviews of The Corporation
DVD Review: An explanation
Summary: 5 Stars
Ultimately, this serves as an explanation for 9/11 and the two resulting resource wars which followed.
Greed IS, in fact, more important than life itself... from the perspective of the modern multinational corporation. Until that fundamental paradigm changes, we (as a species) will continue to deplete, destroy and poison our very ecosystem.
DVD Review: superb and dense examination of the rulers of today's world
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on sceenwriter Joel Bakan's book, "The Corporation: A Pathological Pursuit of Power", this compelling documentary is a lengthy (145 minute) disquisition on the place of the corporation in the world today, a brief on its history and the disquieting notion that the profit motive of large transnationals has all but usurped the democratic voting processes of governments. Of course it is largely a left-wing work, but it is much more nuanced and wider-ranging than something like Michael Moore's works and contains long interviews with numerous luminaries from the academic, activist and corporate worlds. I wish that the filmmakers had chosen other, more eloquent and less out-of-touch intellectuals on the right than the sole example we see (Milton Friedman) but on the whole it's a stunning, depressing work with mere glimmers of hope near the end. Those that have read Kirkpatrick Sale (Rebels Against the Future) will be at home in this work.
The film is structured in a multitude of chapters; at first short, terse, more humorous and wide-ranging, but gradually building to a climax of sorts as it gives more detailed views of "case studies" to support its thesis that a corporation, if it really were a person (and, in the USA, it is in many ways a legal human), would be considered pathological in its total disregard for anything other than the profit motive. One great piece involves the whistleblowers who produced a significant documentary about Monsanto's pushing rBGH into milk production and lying about its harmful effects, only to see the powerful corporation for which they worked (FoxNews) rework the film to placate Monsanto, then fire them....an even more awful example of the negative motives of these transnationals is the story of how California-based Bechtel at one point owned the rights to all water in on of the largest cities in Bolivia -- including rainwater -- and forced people to pay up to a quarter of their pay to have the right to drink (and live).
Interviewees, besides Friedman and Moore (much more restrained and thoughtful here than usual) include Chomsky, Zinn, Janet Akre (former FoxNews correspondent), Naomi Klein and several current and ex-CEOs, most notably Ray Anderson the CEO of Interface, the largest commercial carpet manufacturer in the world and one of the few execs who seems to really be looking at the larger, environmental and holistic picture. Other CEOs come off as completely unaware, or uninterested in, anything besides their stockholders, and Friedman makes the cogent (if coldblooded and amoral) statement that corporations only know how to make profit, so why be involved in something they don't understand (like a healthy environmental outlook).
One of the best new documentaries I've seen in years, an absolute stunner. The film's website is excellent and a great resource.
DVD Review: Good Documentary - B+
Summary: 4 Stars
I did enjoy the film, but I felt there was plenty of uncovered material, and some stories which were too indepth. Extra feature seem to be outstanding, I have not viewed them all, but the material is there. Overall, I would definitely recommend this DVD, but I suppose it did not fulfill my expectations.DVD Review: Important Information for the Health Care Reform
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great documentary, gives you an inside look of what the goal of corporations are and how the laws require them to stick to it. It details how corporations operate. It is very relevant to today's health care debate. Anyone who wants to know what private insurance companies do with the money you pay them need to watch this documentary.DVD Review: Nothing but the highest praise for the highest quality journalism and film making
Summary: 5 Stars
Since discovering this documentary, I have - with the film makers' support - developed study materials that enhance learning and teaching on several university degree programmes. It is, without doubt, the most stimulating and riveting documentary you are likely to see about the nature and impact of contemporary business thinking.
The great strength of the documentary is the quality of the input from all sections of society, whether academic experts, corporate executives, social activists or members of the public. Arguments and debates are not fudged, they are all tackled head on. Regardless of whether the issue is market accountability, branding and advertising, the profit motive, environmental sustainability or workplace democracy, defenders and critics of The Corporation are given ample scope to discuss different points of view. You can hear directly from Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Robert Monks and Noam Chomsky. You can witness for yourself heated dialogue between workers and managers, or demonstrators and corporate executives.
This documentary is a prima facie example of the way high quality journalism can transform our ability to learn in a democratic society. Free speech - however unpleasant to the listener - is the life-blood of an informed electorate who can then use their knowledge to shape political action.
As a student resource (with the film-makers' consent) we produced 30 minute edited versions and learning materials aimed at stimulating debate amongst students. The reaction has been first rate, with many seeking out the full 150 minute documentary or demanding that it be made available for follow up study. It is not often I come across a piece of work that so stimulates students, and which would benefit from becoming part of a core curriculum - this documentary in certainly in a league of its own. Consequently, it is hard to think of a business school that could not benefit from introducing this documentary into its curriculum. It will inevitably stimulate much needed reflection on the nature, ethics and impact of corporations on society.
Rory Ridley-Duff (Dr)
Senior Lecturer
Sheffield Business School
Description of The Corporation
Analyzing footage from advertising, television news, and industrial films, this film explores the meteoric rise and nature of the most pervasive institution of our time.Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
An epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime--a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda. If a town needed a bridge built, a corporation was set up to finance and complete the project; when the bridge was an accomplished fact, the corporation ceased to be. Then came the 19th-century robber barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., power and profit)--ad infinitum.
The Corporation defines this endlessly mutating life-form in exhaustive detail, measuring the many ways it has not only come to dominate but to deform our reality. The movie performs a running psychoanalysis of this entity with the characteristics of a prototypical psychopath: a callous unconcern for the feelings and safety of others, an incapacity to experience guilt, an ingrained habit of lying for profit, etc. We are swept away on a demented odyssey through an altered cosmos, in which artificial chemicals are created for profit and incidentally contribute to a cancer epidemic; in which the folks who brought us Agent Orange devise a milk-increasing drug for a world in which there is already a glut of milk; in which an American computer company leased its systems to the Nazis--and serviced them on a monthly basis--so that the Holocaust could go forward as an orderly process.
The movie goes on too long, circles too many points obsessively and redundantly, and risks preaching-to-the-choir reductiveness by calling on the usual talking-head suspects--Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore. And except for an endlessly receding tracking shot in an infinite patents archive, there's scarcely an image worth recalling. Still, it maps the new reality. This is our world--welcome to it. --Richard T. Jameson
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