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Corporate Responsibility at the Movies

One indicator of growing popular interest in business behaviour (and, equally, one further driver provoking more popular interest), has been a series of movies which have either focussed explicitly on Responsibility, or had corporate irresponsibility as their theme.

Amongst such movies in recent years (with thanks to Oxford University Press for additions to this timeline):

Date Film Name

1988

Winning, Greed, and

Self-Interest

1989 Roger & Me

1990

A World of Ideas:

Money and Culture

1994 Greening Business

1998 A Civil Action

2000 Erin Brockovich

2000 Bread and Roses

2001 Life and Debt

Description

In this program with Bill Moyers,

Josephson discusses the lack of ethical standards in our society and the philosophy of winning, greed, and selfinterest. Acting ethically, he says, is easier said than done, but it’s the only way to make a world fit for our children.

Director Michael Moore pursues GM

CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing.

In this PBS interview, Bill Moyers talked with philosopher Jacob Needleman about his new study of the role of money in our culture in 1990 for the series, A

WORLD OF IDEAS II.

Reports on sustainable business practices and philosophy. This film shows that those businesses that adopt sound environmental practices are usually rewarded with a better bottom line.

Stars John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann ) fighting the case of families of deceased children against a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of companies being responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer

Dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the West Coast energy giant PG&E.

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

American documentary film directed by

Stephanie Black. It examines the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact thereon of the International Monetary Fund and the

World Bank's globalization policies.

2001

2002

2003

2003

El Tren Blanco (The

White Train)

2004

2004

2005

Next Industrial

Revolution

The Luckiest Nut in the World

The Corporation

Super Size Me

Take, The

The Constant

Gardener

Architect Bill McDonough and chemist

Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design. Shot in

Europe and the United States, the film explores how businesses are transforming themselves to work with nature and enhance profitability.

Using a mix of songs, animation and archive footage, an American peanut looks at how his experiences are compared to other nuts around the world. The end result is an amusing look at Trade Liberalisation and why it works for some countries but not for others.

Canadian documentary film by Joel

Bakan critical of the modern-day corporation, considering it as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychologist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.

El tren blanco is an Argentinian documentary about the lives and work of the cartoneros [cardboard collectors] of Buenos Aires.

An Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. It follows a 30day time period (February 2003) during which Spurlock subsists exclusively on

McDonald's fast food and stops exercising regularly. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on

Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.

The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the Canadian documentary film by wife and husband team Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires,

Argentina who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative, or as could be argued, a working model of anarcho-syndicalism.

A 2005 film based on the John le Carré novel of the same name about big pharma companies unethically testing new medicines on unsuspecting patients in Africa.

2005 Syriana

2005

Good Night, And Good

Luck

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2006

2006

2006

2007

North Country

Enron: The Smartest

Guys in the Room

McLibel

Source (Zdroj)

Wal-Mart: The High

Cost of Low Price

Blood Diamond

Thank You for

Smoking

An Inconvenient Truth

Feeding and Fueling the World

Movie starring George Clooney and Matt

Damon about oil companies interfering in the imaginary state of Syriana to replace a ruler hostile to their interests with one more compliant.

Directed by George Clooney tells the story of one TV station’s campaign to expose the McCarthy witch-hunts in the

USA in the 1950s and the commercial pressures and ethical dilemmas that the

TV company faced in the process.

Based on a true story of the struggle for trade union recognition of the rights of female employees in the mining sector.

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

Czech documentary directed by Martin

Mareček and written by Martin Mareček and Martin Skalský explores the civil rights abuses by the Ilham Aliyev regime of Azerbaijan during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, such as eminent domain violations in appropriating land for the pipeline's route, and criticism of the government leading to arrest

Examination of how Wal-Mart affects consumers, the job market, workers, and communities.

Film starring Leonardo DiCaprio diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance the conflicts.

Film satire on the power of corporate lobbying generally and of big tobacco specifically

2006 Oscar-winning documentary made by former US Vice-President on Climate

Change and Global Warming

On this episode of CEO EXCHANGE, taped at the University of Chicago

Graduate School of Business, meet two resourceful CEOs who are revolutionizing the way we think about food and energy around the globe.

2007

2009

2009

2010

2010

The Great Global

Warming Swindle

Capitalism: A Love

Story

2009

The Yes Men Fix the

World

So Right So Smart

Made in Dagenham

Blood in the Mobile

2010 The Devil Operation

TV polemical documentary film that suggests that the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming exists.

This Michael Moore film examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan.

This is the second documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of

The Yes Men. an activist duo and network of supporters created by Andy

Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. They impersonate entities that they dislike and espouse the belief that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public.

As awareness grows about the consequences of environmental disregard, the sustainability movement is gathering momentum, and the institutions with the furthest reach and the highest stakes - corporations - are being asked by customers to take the lead. Those ahead of the curve already realize that there is a way for industry to permanently coexist with its environment, that fitting in to natural systems is smarter than trying to control them, and that sustainability is the most expansive profit frontier yet to be explored.

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the

Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Blood In the Mobile is a documentary film by Danish film director which addresses the issue of conflict minerals by examining illegal cassiterite mining in the North-Kivu province in eastern DR

Congo.

A political thriller in which the central protagonist, Father Marco Arana, helps out Peruvian farmers of the Cajamarca region against the international mining company threatening their land, and in doing so opens up Pandora’s Box.

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