King Corn (film)

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King Corn
Directed by	Aaron Woolf
Produced by	Aaron Woolf
Written by	Ian Cheney Curtis Ellis Jeffrey K. Miller Aaron Woolf
Starring	Ian Cheney Curtis Ellis Michael Pollan Stephen Macko Earl Butz
Distributed by	Balcony Releasing
Release date(s)	October 12, 2007
Language	English
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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. In addition, by producing high fructose corn syrup, the processing of corn has an adverse impact on the health of America. The two return to the same small town that was coincidentally home to both of their great-grandfathers.