The Shock Doctrine (2009)

7.1/10 82 min Documentary

Overview

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

Cast

Kieran O'Brien

Narrator (Voice)

Milton Friedman

Self

John Major

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein

Self (archive footage)

Condoleezza Rice

Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan

Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

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