Free Download of the Corporation
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02.21.07
Part 1
We were blown away by Edward Burtinsky's "A Manufactured Landcape" film and have seen it twice; So were the judges for the Genies, Canada's Academy Awards cold and lite, who gave it best documentary. If it ever comes to American theatres we encourage you to run and see it, or if it is on DVD, put it up there beside An Inconvenient Truth, for it is as important a film. While you are waiting, we have learned that an earlier important and fabulous Genie-winning Canadian documentary is now available to watch on your computers for free- The Corporation. Description continues below.
Part II
WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
Reviews:
“THE CORPORATION is just brilliant-visually, intellectually, and morally. This film has redefined the documentary genre.”
-- Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
"THE CORPORATION is an important, powerful film. it's a thoughtful, analytical critique that is both disheartening in its sweep and encouraging in its final prognosis about the potential for change."
-- Sarah Bartlett, Prof. of Business Journalism, Baruch College, City University of New York
Oh, if you like it you should donate or buy a copy. via ::Celsias
there is another thought-provoking film available for free online watching that i highly recommend. you don´t have to share the radical position of john zerzan who is featured at the beginning, but it is definitely worth watching it.
surplus - terrorized into being consumers (51 min)
with english subtitles (some persons featured speak swedish, spanish, italian) it comes in 7 parts and starts here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eeZ7hMd1tIU
for german, french and spanish speakers there are subtitled all in one versions on google video:
german:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-2126268215798150441&q=surplus
french:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-648006371350113726&q=surplus+duration%3Along
spanish:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-339817359829725096&q=surplus+duration%3Along
I don't understand why a website like this, purporting to be about environmentalism, features radical left-wing propaganda like this?
LA: They had some interesting comments on big corporations and the environment.
@Anonymous
why do you want to save the planet but call those "left-wing" who criticize corporations that are sucking people in a direct way. ever heard of sweatshops and the very unhealthy working conditions in a lot of factories in the developing countries (run by western companies!). are you going green just for self-serving reasons or do you only want to save the environment of americans?
if you don´t understand the interconnection of environmentalism and social justice (called sustainability you know) i highly recommand you to read "our common future".
i don´t share the opinion of john zerzan who thinks the whole industry must be destroyed to save the planet and human civilization (featured in the film i posted) but "the corporation" is a very good anlysis of contemporary capitalism that even neoliberal media like the economist considered appropriate.
left and right are the wrong categories to juge a film like the corporation. maybe it is humanistic. but if you prefer to believe in the right of the strongest don´t ever cry for the poor and oppressed.
Thank you for posting this amazing documentary!
Sandra*