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Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, everyone was making the big bucks and F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wants to make his fortune. He decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company in order to escape the tyranny of the stockholders. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis, but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen. Kravis mounts his own buy-out campaign,...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laura Partridge, a small-time stockholder creates havoc at a board meeting, falls in love with the former chief executive officer, and wrests control of the corporation from its selfish, corrupt board of directors.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy substituting simulations for reality.
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
We will start by introducing project finance, highlighting the transactions that are eligible for this type of financing. Understanding the criteria for project finance is crucial for assessing the feasibility of infrastructure projects and identifying potential funding sources. The case study on Express Fiji will serve as our guiding example throughout the course. We will dissect the multi-scenario input sheet, examining each component and its role...
7) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Publisher
Shoot First, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If our political system is like a game of Monopoly, how can outsiders have a voice when only money speaks? John Ennis documents comical corruption, follows political newcomers, and uncovers intrigue in this colorful journey that connects the dots of Big Money in our ever-challenging election process.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1064
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined.
12) Pootie tang
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's the too-hip hero with a style and a language all his own! Based on the hilarious character who first appeared on ₁The Chris Rock Show,₂ Pootie Tang is a hit-record-singing, criminal-empire-busting, superhero idolized by kids and women everywhere. But when Pootie's one-man war against greed, cuts into profits LecterCorp's, demented CEO plunges the super dude into a super-funk by swiping his magical villain-whupping belt.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 97 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
15) Rising sun
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The special liaison officer is called in to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture, the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties."--Container.
16) Dead pigs
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American ex-pat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan's (Birds Of Prey) debut feature.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (450 min.) : sound, color tinted and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The master mystery: Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
19) Flawless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Quinn is an executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself routinely stifled on the corporate ladder. Hobbs is an equally overlooked nighttime janitor with an intimate knowledge of the security system. Hobbs has a score to settle with the Corporation. Sensing Laura's frustration, Hobbs convinces her to help him pull off an ingenious heist.
20) Oklahoma crude
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
An independent wildcatter during the pre-World War I oil boom and her n'er-do well dad, hire Mase, a rough-and-tumble oil field drifter. Mase helps her fight the depredations of a big conglomerate bent on taking her well away.
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