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 most astute and flat-out persuasive political documentary of the new millennium… the superb, new double-disc DVD release will give viewers even more time to stew, given that it’s packed with an abundance of excised footage, related film and web resource listings, commentaries and more.”
-- Brent Simon, Now Playing Magazine
"Fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative"
-- Bill White, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“In a word; wow. No two discs (including the feature) have ever been so fully packed with extra features… If there was ever one documentary worth owning, it’s certainly this.”
-- DVDnet
“THE CORPORATION is a riveting, entertaining, and highly intelligent film that is sure to provoke heated discussion about a long-neglected but vital question: the proper role of business in society.”
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks And Losing Streaks Begin and End; Professor, Harvard Business School
"This is the kind of filmmaking that could, if seen on a large scale, change the society we live in."
-- Chris Parry, Hollywood Bitchslap
"Thought-provoking doc... [The filmmakers] wrap their end-is-nigh warning in an entertaining package, and the coolheaded delivery increases its impact."
-- Megan Lehmann, The New York Post
"This remarkable film is a resounding requiem for the notion that a corporation's social responsibility is satisfied by maximizing profits for its shareholders. It should be mandatory viewing for every MBA in the USA."
-- Don Mayer, Editor, International Business Law Review
“This second disc is one of the best examples of DVD bonus content around, especially when coupled with the great film and extra material already on the first disc.”
-- Adam Rosenberg, DVDfanatic
"Cogent, even rabble rousing indictment of the most influential institutional model for our era."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety
"A must see for all executives who want to know more about the forces working worldwide against them."
-- Paul A. Argenti, Professor of Management and Corporate Communication, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth
"A cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and also... a terrific movie."
-- Premiere Magazine
"Leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's "dominant institution."
-- Village Voice
"Clever, quietly passionate and sweeping"
-- John Anderson, Newsday
"THE CORPORATION is a wonderfully provocative film that deals with fundamental questions that should be addressed by anybody who works in a corporation or plans on doing so."
-- Dr. Tima Bansal, Shurniak Professor of International Business, Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
"Coolheaded and incisive...thorough and informative... It leaves audiences with a cold shiver"
-- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"Move over, Michael Moore! Securing the participation of so many kings of capitalism was one of the filmmakers' most vital accomplishments."
-- Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Observer
"Highly informative, often shocking and eye-opening! THE CORPORATION presents compelling and original perspectives on the origin,nature, expansion and effects of the modern corporate institution that dominates the economy, polity culture and everyday life of most of the earth's inhabitants, while also depicting individuals and groups struggling against corporate domination."
-- Douglas Kellner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
“This is a two-disc package that contains an overwhelming amount of outstanding extras, there is basically another 6-hour (!) documentary included.”
--Greg Malmborg, MovieFreak
“Should keep even the most ravenous corporate critics busy for hours on end.”
-- James Kendrick, QNetwork
"What are they? Secretive anti-democratic-in fact, tyrannical-institutions [with much in common with Fascism and Bolshevism] which, not so long ago, sneaked into our social system through the back door of the courts. Is this generally known? Far from it. This is why The Corporation is so unique: there is no other film that turns the spotlight on them so everyone can see what they are up to and what needs to be done."
-- Carlos P. Otero, Professor of Linguistics, UCLA
"Powerful. Make an effort to see it"
-- Peter Vonder Haar, Film Threat
"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
“Few will have the stamina to watch it again with filmmaker's commentary, or yet again with Bakan's commentary—and that's too bad, because both are full of additional insights.”
-- James Plath, Reel.com
"THE CORPORATION raises questions about the enduring viability and value of the corporation as the primary vehicle for organizing the production of wealth in market-based societies. It raises important concerns about the impact of the corporate structure on a range of public goods and should provoke thinking about whether or not there are better ways to more effectively organize production for the general welfare."
-- Mark Amen, Director of the Globalization Research Center, University of Southern Florida
“The Corporation” will leave you with enough material to fuel dinner conversations for weeks on end. Don’t miss it.
-- Christopher Long, DVDtown
"This vivid and often mesmerizing film lifts the veil from one of the most important and least understood features of modern age: the extraordinary powers that have been bestowed on virtually unaccountable private tyrannies, required by law to act in ways that severely undermine democracy and the most elementary human rights, and that pose a serious threat even to survival."
-- Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT
