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The Corporation Director: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/05/2005
  • Original Release: 2003
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 7,691

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DISC ONE 16:9 anamorphic film transfer, formatted for widescreen TVs; Two feature audio commentaries: One with co-directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, and one with writer Joel Bakan; Janeane Garofolo interviews Joel Bakan on Air America's Majority Report; "Q's and A's": A selection of television, radio and festival interview segments with the filmmakers, including segments from CNN Financial, WNYC, WBAI, and Air America; Theatrical trailers for The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media; Selection of deleted scenes, including additional clips from Michael Moore's The Awful Truth; Grassroots marketing video segment

DISC TWO "Topical Paradise" and "Tell Me More": Over 5 hours of additional footage of The Corporation's 40 interviewees, searchable by topic or interview subject; additional trailers; web links; subject updates; and more

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Scene Index

Side #1 -- The Movie
1. What Is a Corporation? [6:27]
2. Birth [4:25]
3. A Legal "Person" [5:03]
4. Externalities [2:12]
5. Case Histories [22:21]
6. The Pathology of Commerce [:48]
7. Monstrous Obligations [5:33]
8. Mindset [7:33]
9. Trading on 9/11 [2:10]
10. Boundary Issues [6:39]
11. Basic Training [9:24]
12. Perception Management [2:17]
13. Like a Good Neighbour [3:05]
14. A Private Celebration [3:38]
15. Triumph of the Shill [2:39]
16. Advancing the Front [5:06]
17. Unsettling Accounts [10:58]
18. Expansion Plans [4:01]
19. Taking the Right Side [6:25]
20. Hostile Takeover [2:42]
21. Democracy Ltd. [8:25]
22. Psycho Therapies [16:45]
23. Prognosis [2:49]
24. Credits [2:17]

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Editorial Reviews

If Academy Awards were given for films most likely to start arguments at dinner tables, this hot-button polemic would have won the 2005 Oscar hands down. It begins with the revelation that, according to a Supreme Court ruling, a corporation must be considered a person rather than an entity. Under this definition, reasons profiler Robert Hare, corporations can be categorized as psychopathic because they exhibit a personality disorder: that of single-mindedly pursuing their objectives without regard for the people in and around them. This observation becomes the jumping-off point for directors Jennifer Abbot and Mark Achbar, who present a dizzying succession of talking heads and stock shots to make the case that the corporate world is responsible for just about every bad thing that happens on the planet (and above it, if you count the diminishing ozone layer). These evil corporations, we're told over and over, are systemically depleting the earth's resources and robbing future generations, in order to enrich themselves in the present. Dutifully trotted out to make this case are left-wing torchbearers Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, as well as "responsible" corporate figures such as Interface's Roy Anderson. Predictably, the filmmakers take shots at all the Usual Suspects, from George W. Bush to Kathie Lee Gifford, to make their guys look noble and everyone else ridiculous. The end result is almost comically one-sided, although there are half-hearted attempts at balance in the occasional interpolation of remarks by free-market advocates such as Milton Friedman. There's something to be learned here, even if the directors take the attitude of scolds. If nothing else, The Corporation is provocative, and it certainly merits viewing by anyone with even a scintilla of interest in humanity's well-being. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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Corporationby Anonymous

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January 17, 2007: "The Corporation" is one of the best documentaries I've seen in years! Are you aware that, by law, a corporation is classified as a person. Corporations also have an obligation to their shareholders to make money, end of story. The fact is, they don't care about you and they regularly commit crimes against humanity. It's all in the name of business so their hands are apparently washed. It's relatively simple to understand. For example, lets take a look at healthcare. All of those drug advertisements we see on TV and in magazines are ONLY trying to sell you product, not get you healthy! Educated people understand that drugs just cover-up symptoms and do not address underlying causes. That's a scientific medical fact! This concept applies to any industry, not just healthcare. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that all corporations are evil entities. There are a select few that actually serve public good and their actions prove it. This documentary points out the not-so-obvious reasons why the corporation (if it was a real person) would be labeled a psychopath! - Dr. Matthew J. Loop (Author of "Cracking the Cancer Code")

Corporationby Anonymous

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September 05, 2006: Although this film does not pretend to be a pro-free-market movie, it makes it rife for accusations for right-wingers because of polarizing personalities like Zinn, Chomsky, and Moore. However, it delves into highly relevant topics like corporate espionage, inducing bad chemicals (Monsanto, for instance), and propping up power and having the biggest concentrated power in the history of the world. I was intrigued by the straightforward answers of most of the businessman people and they showed how incredibally and terribally arrogant they are. Don't these people have any moral fiber? As the film pointed out, industry has grown mostly out of chaos and war i.e. the Civil War in America and World War II. Don't forget there would be no Hitler without IBM. As was seen in the movie because of the extreme right-wing globalization movements of the last half century since the corporation really picked its feet up, governments in Bolivia and Argentina (Hugo Chavez) are having equally backlashing movements, often, regrettablly, with violence. The USA, if pressed, as they have been by this most amoral regime, would rebel with equally or even more heinous fighting because our country is near a civil war, in my opinion (and I am surprisingly a moderate to coservative Deomcrat, in the line of Kennedy, and revolution for me is the antithesis of progress). Ladies and Gentleman, as Henry Rollins says, "When cornered, never relent."


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