The winner of the IBE and EBEN-UK 2004
prize for the best undergraduate essay on business ethics was Catherine Barlow
of Nottingham University. She analysed two feature films that dealt with business
ethics issues and this in turn was made possible by a season of films with a business
ethics theme that was organised in Nottingham in 2004 by the International Centre
for Corporate Responsibility (ICCSR) at Nottingham University. This successful
use of feature films as a means of business ethics education has led us to begin
a list of films that might be used for this purpose (You can read her essay here).
In addition, for an on-line journal specializing in the use of film in teaching
about ethical issues, see the entry for Ethics and Film at
Journals and newsletters.
Title
of film | Link | |
The Corporation
(2004) | http://www.thecorporation.tv/ |
A documentary on the global impact of large
organisations. It treats them as a patient undergoing
psychoanalysis and decides that they are psychopaths.
The distributors recommend that people for discussion
groups to view and discuss the film. |
| Super Size Me
(2004) | http://www.supersizeme.com |
The film in which the film maker decides
to live for a month on the best deals that McDonalds have
to offer. It raises the question of people's individual
responsibility for their diets and when fast food corporations
may persuade people to eat unhealthily. McDonalds has
set up a website to rebut the film's claims >http://www.supersizeme-thedebate.co.uk/<. |
| The Insider (1999) | | This
film, directed by Michael Mann is available in VHS and DVD. It stars Russell Crowe
as an employee in the tobacco industry who breaks the confidentiality clause he
has agreed with his employer. |
| Roger
and Me (1989) | http://www.michaelmoore.com/ | Also
available on VHS and DVD. This was Michael Moore's first expose of corporate America.
It is the story of the decline of his home town of Flint Michigan after general
Motors closed its factories there. |
