King Corn doc follows crop from seed to feed

Set in rural Iowa, King Corn follows best friends Ian Cheney's and Curt Ellis' shared experiment in farming corn on a single acre. The pair returns from college at Yale to plant one acre of corn using genetically modified seeds, fertilizers and herbicides to produce a bumper crop. As they learn more about where their corn will end up—as feed for livestock or in syrup for human consumption—Cheney and Ellis are left disenchanted both with the process and their produce. 

Filmed during 2004 and 2005, King Corn also incorporates footage from the National Archives and home movies from the Ellis and Cheney families, who farmed together 80 years ago in the same part of Iowa. The film will be broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens April 15.

Suggested retail price for King Corn is $26.95.