Independent Lens
Season 9 Episode 20 - Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of corn has for American society. The film shows how the industrialization of corn has all but eliminated the family farm, which is being replaced by larger and larger industrial farms. This trend reflects a larger industrialization of the North American food system, whereby, as was outlined in the film, decisions relating to what crops are grown, and how they are grown, are based more on economic considerations than their ramifications on the environment or the population. This is demonstrated in the film by the production of high fructose corn syrup, an ingredient found in many cheap food products, such as fast food. The two return to the same small town that was coincidentally home to both of their great-grandfathers.
Episodes in Season 9
Wordplay
60 min
Please Vote for Me
60 min
Storm of Emotions
60 min
Red White Black & Blue
60 min
Miss Navajo
60 min
The Creek Runs Red
60 min
The Paper
60 min
An Unreasonable Man
60 min
Today's Man
60 min
A Son's Sacrifice
60 min
American Made
60 min
How Is Your Fish Today?
60 min
Banished
60 min
Hard Road Home
60 min
Iron Ladies of Liberia
60 min
Compañeras
60 min
Water Flowing Together
60 min
Water Flowing Together
60 min
Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
60 min
A Dream in Doubt
60 min
New Year Baby
60 min
The Cool School
60 min
Writ Writer
60 min
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
60 min
Deep Water
60 min
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
60 min
