The Shock Doctrine (2009)

Movie · Documentary · 1h 22m · Rated 7.1/10 on TMDB · Released September 1, 2009

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.

Directed by Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross

Cast

• Kieran O'Brien as Narrator (Voice)
• Naomi Klein as Self
• Milton Friedman as Self
• John Major as Self (archive footage)
• Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)
• Henry Kissinger as Self (archive footage)
• Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage)
• Condoleezza Rice as Self (archive footage)
• Barack Obama as Self (archive footage)
• Alan Greenspan as Self (archive footage)
• Boris Yeltsin as Self (archive footage)
• Margaret Thatcher as Self (archive footage)

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