King Corn

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

• Category

  • Documentary

• Starring:

  • Dawn Cheney
  • Ian Cheney
  • Ian Cheney
  • Curt Ellis
  • Curt Ellis
  • Rich Johnson
  • Stephen Macko
  • Al Marth
  • Scott McGregor
  • Michael Pollan
  • Chuck Pyatt
  • Ricardo Salvador
  • Aaron Woolf
  • Aaron Woolf
  • Aaron Woolf

[Haden Gibbons]

If corn is a member of the grass family. How come we don`t grow a tastier more nutritious corn and feed humans and cattle? Corn on my plate and grass in my cow. A cow in a feed lot will still eat what you put in front of it. It will take a longer but is it not a step in the right direction?

[Nighthawk1108]

This was depressing

[Sherry Walker]

The omega-6 fatty acids that are found in the fat of a corn fed cow, rather then the omega-3 fatty acids found in pastured beef singlehandedly affects your weight. As well as a laundry list of other diseases of civilization.

[PaletFire]

I love Grass fed Alberta beef.

[randy95023]

So? If we grew the same amount of Corn, and didn't make it into Animal Feed, High Fructose Corn Syrup or Ethanol, we could feed about 25 Billion People if they were willing to eat Corn Porridge and other "Corn Foods" like Tortillas, etc.

We could triple the World's population without growing a single new acre of foodstuffs but we sure would get tired of eating Corn...

[Shannon B]

Cows aren't meant to eat corn; they're meant to eat grass. I'd rather eat plants (which I do) than eat something that's been suffering from eating what it isn't supposed to. Do your research.

[JarlFalstaff]

But I bet the soy and corn generated plastic is grown right here in (Chin)America.

[KamyriaMourn]

Amazing documentary! Thank you! :)

[Spacetiger554108]

Grrr, Netflix's output volume was so effing low, WTF, YT I love..

[EarthaKit2]

Yep. Corn is bad, wheat is bad, meat is bad, chicken is bad, eggs are bad, sugar is bad, cabbage is bad, potatoes are bad, rice is bad.

Uhm.. :

. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. “

― Frederick Douglass

[DSMLR5]

The fact that they genetically alter the corn to withstand herbesides compromises its integrety. They also genetically alter the corn to produce its own insecticide so that when the insects eat it their stomachs explode and they die. this allows mass production, but quality, and human and animal health are irrelevant to those in power.