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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL
EAN: 0795975106535
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Zeitgeist Films
Manufacturer: Zeitgeist Films
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Zeitgeist Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 05, 2005
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 3458
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Theatrical Release Date: June 04, 2004
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Product Description:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A must see/read. A very well researched and rather frightening eye opening doc and book.
Both book and documentary are a must see for anyone who feels democracy, freedom and a healthy environment are important. It's not a Michael More style approach but a thorough study by a decent lawyer
who objectively draws some very, very frightening conclusions about the power of corporations. Also contains interviews with (ex) CEO's of global corporations - who to a big extent agree. Buy the 2 cd version with the full interviews with all several experts and CEO's, a very nice extra. The book is also a classic, one of the best and most revealing nonfiction books I read the past 2 decades. I bought some copies to give it to two "big international company executive" friends, who were equally impressed...
Rating: - Highly recommended!
I've truly enjoyed watching The Corporation and have now viewed it 3 times, and over the past 2 days have also watched the extended interviews on the second disc. I particularly appreciated the views from Ray Anderson, Dr. Vandana Shiva and Ira Jackson. It was also interesting learning the views and perspectives of Marc Barry, Carlton Brown and others, despite their honesty leaving me disturbed. This important documentary couldn't have come a moment too soon. Very thought-provoking.
Rating: - Rhe Corporation
It is very good CD and with good and packing it safe. But your price is little it expensive.
Rating:  - Really disappointing
I'm wondering if I saw the same documentary as these reviewers? We didn't make it past the first 15 minutes which was an amalgam of B-reel clips strung together to pictorial-ize a variety of audio clips of various persons using metaphors to describe corporate activities. It was simply a non-sensical introduction. We loved the book, and were really looking forward to seeing the documentary. Instead, the first fifteen minutes of garbage just turned us off. Seriously - I don't think I've written any negative reviews before, and I felt compelled this time to let others know that this may not be what they are expecting.
Rating: - Sobering look at how big business & big government are . . .
Sobering look at how big business & big government are NOT serving your best interests. Their goal is money to point of unbelievable greed,those in government have the goal of maintaining power and that is a bad combination.
Everyone should see this movie, and I mean everyone!
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