Corporations have created unprecedented wealth but at what cost?

This film shows how corporations have been allowed to balloon in both size and power and have been responsible for countless cases of illness, death, poverty, pollution, exploitation and lies.

With a clever mix of animation and 1950’s archive, the film assesses the personality of the corporation – likening it to a social psychopath.

The Corporation team writes…

To assess the “personality” of the corporate “person,” a checklist is employed, using diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. The operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social “personality”: it is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism.

Once a corporation is established as a remorseless individual, the film takes a long hard look at the infrastructure – ie  the government policy and legal loopholes that allow corporations to function in this way, ensuring they remain virtually unaccountable for their actions.

The Corporation includes interviews with 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,

The film has won 26 International awards and 10 audience choice awards, including the Sundance Film Festival and is Canada’s most successful documentary.

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