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The Corporation (2003) -- A complex, sobering, yet darkly amusing documentary, THE CORPORATION takes its audience on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures.
The Corporation (2003) -- Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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Overview

User Rating:
8.2/10   8,769 votes
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Directors:
Writers:
Joel Bakan (written by)
Harold Crooks (narration) ...
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Release Date:
4 June 2004 (USA) more
Plot:
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
10 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
The Naughts: The Documentary of the '00s
 (From IFC. 7 December 2009, 10:17 AM, PST)

User Reviews:
I'll never buy Hood's or Shaw's milk again. more (119 total)

Cast

 
Jane Akre ... Herself
Ray Anderson ... Himself
Maude Barlow ... Herself

Chris Barrett ... Himself
Carlton Brown ... Himself
Smedley Darlington Butler ... Himself - USMC, exposes anti-FDR plot (archive footage)
Noam Chomsky ... Himself
Víctor Hugo Daza ... Himself - slain student, Bolivia (archive footage)
Peter Drucker ... Himself
Samuel Epstein ... Himself
Milton Friedman ... Himself

Kathie Lee Gifford ... Herself (archive footage)
Naomi Klein ... Herself
Susan E. Linn ... Herself
Luke McCabe ... Himself

Mikela J. Mikael ... Narrator (voice)
Robert Monks ... Himself

Michael Moore ... Himself
Jonathan Ressler ... Himself
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Himself (archive footage)
Vandana Shiva ... Herself
Steve Wilson ... Himself
Kofi Annan ... Himself, at the UN (archive footage) (uncredited)

George W. Bush ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Chrétien ... Himself, with George W. Bush (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill ... Himself, at Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mahatma Gandhi ... Himself, during Salt March (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Gifford ... Himself, behind Kathie Lee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
King George VI ... Himself, with Queen Elizabeth (uncredited) (archive footage) (unconfirmed)

Martin Luther King ... Himself, during March On Washington (archive footage) (uncredited)
V.I. Lenin ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nelson Mandela ... Himself, after release, with Winnie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winnie Mandela ... Herself, with Nelson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Mansbridge ... Himself, CBC (voice) (uncredited) (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Knowlton Nash ... Himself, CBC (voice) (uncredited) (archive footage)
Pope John XXIII ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin ... Himself, at Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ken Starr ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martha Stewart ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dave Thomas ... Himself, in Wendy's commercial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman ... Himself, at Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eugene Whelan ... Himself - Senator, chairs Posilac inquiry (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Mark Achbar 
Jennifer Abbott (co-director)
 
Writing credits
Joel Bakan (written by)

Harold Crooks (narration) and
Mark Achbar (narration)

Produced by
Mark Achbar .... producer
Maureen Levitt .... consulting producer: Vision TV
Bart Simpson .... producer
 
Original Music by
Leonard J. Paul 
 
Cinematography by
Mark Achbar 
Rolf Cutts 
Jeffrey M. Hoffman  (as Jeff Koffman)
Kirk Tougas 
 
Film Editing by
Jennifer Abbott 
 
Art Direction by
Henry Faber 
 
Production Management
Larry Di Stefano .... post-production supervisor
Bart Simpson .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Trish Dolman .... second unit director
Beth Pielert .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Henry Faber .... lead designer
 
Sound Department
Hennie Britton .... foley artist
Stephen Cheung .... dialogue editor
Ian Emberton .... sound re-recording mixer
Tony Gort .... sound effects editor
Jeff Henschel .... sound recordist
Roger Morris .... adr mixer
David Novack .... sound re-recording mixer
Chris Ove .... dialogue recordist
David Raines .... dialogue pre-mixer
Velcrow Ripper .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Sandi Higgins .... additional videographer
Jeffrey M. Hoffman .... director of photography: documentary
 
Editorial Department
Ness Broom .... additional editor
Larry Di Stefano .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Sarah Webster .... music clearances: S.L. Feldman & Associates
 
Other crew
Scott Challgren .... outreach
Bienvenido Cruz .... layout and motion designer
Corinna Hagel .... research and clearance
Henrieta Isufllari .... video to film transfer
Lea Moss .... research and clearance
Paula Sawadsky .... archival researcher
 
Thanks
Sandi Higgins .... thanks
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
145 min | Argentina:150 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Hong Kong:165 min (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
A lot of the footage is downloaded off the Internet from www.archive.org, a website dedicated to free film footage within the public domain. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: 150 years ago, the business corporation was a relatively insignificant institution. Today, it is all-pervasive. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant institution. This documentary examines the nature...
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Movie Connections:
Features The Big One (1997) more
Soundtrack:
Bad Apple more

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75 out of 97 people found the following review useful.
I'll never buy Hood's or Shaw's milk again., 9 August 2004

So we're getting used to antibiotics because of Corporate America's dairies pumping their sick cattle full of the stuff. I knew it intellectually but never realized it so viscerally as I did while watching these cows with their udders painfully distended and the pus coming out of them. Like a little pus with your milk? You're getting it.

so it's onto soy milk or organic milk for me, from now on. That is but one of the life-changing experiences I had watching this movie. Of course, I already knew what tentacles Corporate America has around every area of our government including the media, but this movie just punched it up.

It should make you angry. If not, your conscience has long been stilled by your big screen TV, your gas-guzzling SUV or your stock options. Probably won't show in most of your towns....too much of a threat to the corporations that are shown up in this show. Monsanto? Won't be buying any of their products anytime soon, and I already boycott Walmark, Penney's and the ubiquitous Barbie Doll. Pretty soon, I'll be eating nothing buy my own garden's products....a good idea, no? See the movie: find out how you're being shilled. You might even decide to take back your government from the corporations writing policy for Cheney and other Congressional prostitutes.

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