King Corn

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1h 28m 0+Documentary Food

King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled b... Read more

Starring Ian Cheney, Curtis Ellis, Earl L. Butz, Michael Pollan

Watch "King Corn" from streaming services Youtube, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2007. It's a documentary and food movie, and has a rating of 7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.