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The Coca-Cola Case
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The Coca-Cola Case

84 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Three men take on one of the world's most recognizable brands: Daniel Kovalik of the United Steelworkers, Terry Collingsworth of International Rights Advocates, and corporate campaigner Ray Rogers, all working to hold Coca-Cola accountable for alleged labor rights abuses tied to its bottling partners abroad. Their legal weapon is the Alien Tort Claims Act, an eighteenth-century statute that lets foreign nationals sue in US courts over violations of international law, and the film follows the case they build under it against the company. Interviews with the lawyers and with workers who say they suffered under Coca-Cola's overseas operations lay out the allegations directly, while the film tracks the practical mechanics of the suit: what the Act requires, how a multinational's relationship to its bottlers and contractors gets tested in court, and what it takes to make that argument stick. The case becomes a test of a broader question the film keeps returning to: whether an American company can be made legally responsible for what happens inside the businesses it partners with far from home.