The Corporation (DVD)

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You simply cannot comprehend modern society unless you understand the history, growth, and pervasiveness of corporate power.

That’s why BuzzFlash is offering a new spellbinding and engrossing documentary, The Corporation, that charts the birth of corporations and how they evolved from being short-term community based institutions that would dissolve after time to later being defined as "persons" granted with rights and liberties by American courts. Slick lawyers and industrial robber barons turned post-Civil War due process laws -- meant to give African-Americans civil rights -- on their heads and carved out a roadmap for corporations to consume resources, capital, and labor ad infinitum.

Greed, political corruption, unchecked power, mass consumption, and environmental destruction are the results of the ascension of corporations that now dominate our democratic processes, the media, the quality of life, and indeed our reality.

The Corporation remarkably tells this untold story with humor, balance, and stunning visual imagery that marks it as one of the best documentaries of last year, and one of the best treatises of corporate power.

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The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache, and seriousness, filmmakers Mark Achbar (Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomksy and the Media) and Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan have fashioned a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates in the modern age.

Based on Bakan's book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore (FAHRENHEIT 9/11), historian Howard Zinn, "No Logo" author Naomi Klein (THE TAKE), as well as corporate honchos, whistleblowers and big business spies, THE CORPORATION charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.

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"A monster movie! Smart! Fascinating! The topic is intricate and global and [the filmmakers] address it with spiky, dogged intelligence. A dense, complicated and thought-provoking film!"
-- The New York Times

"Fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative!"
-- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Five stars! A terrific film! Fascinating! Cogent! Compelling! Powerful!"
-- Premiere

"Visually arresting and very funny."
-- L.A. Weekly

"One of the must-see documentaries of the new century."
-- Seattle Times

"A fast-moving collage, an ironic surreal visual riff."
-- The Wall Street Journal

"Better manners and a longer fuse than Fahrenheit 9/11!"
-- Entertainment Weekly

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# Director: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
# Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
# Format: Color, Widescreen
# Rated: Unrated
# Studio: Zeitgeist Video
# DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005
# Run Time: 145
# DVD Features:

DISC ONE

* * 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
* * Plus: Additional trailers, web links, subject updates, and more!

# ASIN: B0007DBJM8

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