Sep 01, 2009
82 min
Full-HD

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Renegade Pictures

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)

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