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The Shock Doctrine

2009 · 1h 22m

Directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

7.1

TMDB audience score
62 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Kieran O'Brien
    Narrator (Voice)

  • Naomi Klein
    Self

  • 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)