The Corporation

 

Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.

 

The Corporation has emerged to be today’s dominant institution, one that creates great
wealth but also great harms. This documentary examines the history of the corporation
and the role it plays in society and our everyday lives.


 


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The Corporation complete film transcript (PDF) - Part 1 (197KB) & Part 2 (140KB)

 

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All 23 chapters of The Corporation 

 

THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation?7:15

THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation?

1. The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also...

THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth4:55

THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth

2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve t...

THE CORPORATION [3/23] A Legal "Person"5:47

THE CORPORATION [3/23] A Legal "Person"

3. Having acquired rights of immortal persons, what kind of person is the corporat...

THE CORPORATION [4/23] Externalities2:12

THE CORPORATION [4/23] Externalities

4. What is an externality? Milton Friedman describes it as the effect of a transac...

 

THE CORPORATION [5/23] Case Histories22:54

THE CORPORATION [5/23] Case Histories

5. Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the c...

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THE CORPORATION [6/23] The Pathology of Commerce0:46

THE CORPORATION [6/23] The Pathology of Commerce

6. If we look at the corporation as a legal person, it exhibits all the characteri...

THE CORPORATION [7/23] Monstrous Obligations6:14

THE CORPORATION [7/23] Monstrous Obligations

7. Who bears the moral responsibility for the actions of a psychopathic institutio...

THE CORPORATION [8/23] Mindset8:05

THE CORPORATION [8/23] Mindset

8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset o...

THE CORPORATION [9/23] Trading on 9/112:10

THE CORPORATION [9/23] Trading on 9/11

9. A trader describes the tragedy of 9/11 as a blessing in disguise because for so...

THE CORPORATION  [10/23]  Boundary Issues7:21

THE CORPORATION [10/23] Boundary Issues

10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commerc...

THE CORPORATION  [11/23]  Basic Training9:56

THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training

11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated, pervasive force that ex...

THE CORPORATION  [12/23]  Perception Managment3:00

THE CORPORATION [12/23] Perception Managment

12. Some of our best creative minds are employed to create illusions that divert u...

THE CORPORATION  [13/23]  Like a Good Neighbour3:35

THE CORPORATION [13/23] Like a Good Neighbour

13. Pfizer attempts to "make the community better" with it's own private transit s...

THE CORPORATION  [14/23]  A Private Celebration4:24

THE CORPORATION [14/23] A Private Celebration

14. Branding is not just advertising, it's production. It's the dissemination of t...

THE CORPORATION  [15/23]  Triumph of the Shill3:09

THE CORPORATION [15/23] Triumph of the Shill

15. Welcome to the new world of undercover marketing and product placement. With s...

THE CORPORATION  [16/23]  Advancing the Front5:48

THE CORPORATION [16/23] Advancing the Front

16. Where do tomorrow's opportunities for profit lie? In the US, the Supreme Court...

THE CORPORATION  [17/23]  Unsettling Accounts11:28

THE CORPORATION [17/23] Unsettling Accounts

17. Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television s...

THE CORPORATION  [18/23]  Expansion Plan4:46

THE CORPORATION [18/23] Expansion Plan

18. The beginning of the fight for the world's most important resource: water. In ...

THE CORPORATION  [19/23]  Taking The Right Side6:57

THE CORPORATION [19/23] Taking The Right Side

19. The rise of fascism has links to corporate power. American corporations played...

THE CORPORATION  [20/23]  Hostile Takeover3:24

THE CORPORATION [20/23] Hostile Takeover

20. Despotism was often a useful tool for the corporation to secure foreign market...

 

THE CORPORATION  [21/23]  Democracy Ltd.8:57

THE CORPORATION [21/23] Democracy Ltd.

21. A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Cap...

THE CORPORATION  [22/23]  Psycho Therapies17:17

THE CORPORATION [22/23] Psycho Therapies

22. The public is starting to fight back and demand accountability from its corpor...

THE CORPORATION  [23/23]  Prognosis5:06

THE CORPORATION [23/23] Prognosis

23. Epilogue. Victories are being won around the world but are they enough to turn...

 

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