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This movie, clearly assembled in haste, throws surprisingly poor archival footage into the mix with a Klein lecture, scant original interviews and a narration from on high that will brook no dissent.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
The Shock Doctrine
2009 · 1h 22m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
Mat Whitecross
,
Michael Winterbottom
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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.
Director and cast
- Mat Whitecross Director
- Michael Winterbottom Director
- 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)
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