Movie
The Shock Doctrine
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-09-01
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Renegade Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
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)
Crew
- Michael Winterbottom - Director
- Mat Whitecross - Director
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