Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan.
Think-Buying 1999. $39.95
Length: 145 minutes
Audience: Secondary, Post-Secondary
Topics: globalization, consumerism, global media
Synopsis for The Corporation from
www.thecorporation.com:
Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes 40 interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
Best Documentary - 25th Anniversary of the Genie Awards
The Corporation can be ordered online from Think-Buying and Film West (educational version).
Free teacher resources and study guides for the film is available at The Corporation Web site.
View the trailer (Quicktime).
