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Directed by award-winning filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross (co-directors of THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE is a feature documentary based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name. THE SHOCK DOCTRINE is a gripping and incisive deconstruction of how free market policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. THE SHOCK DOCTRINE radically challenges the myth that the global free market triumphed on the wings of democracy.
Both the film and the book argue that both big business and governments overexploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars with the very aim of pushing through radical free market policies. Naomi Klein calls this "disaster capitalism." The film traces the doctrine's beginnings in the radical theories of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and its subsequent implementation over the past 40 years in countries as disparate as Augusto Pinochet's Chile, Boris Yeltsin's Russia, Margaret Thatcher's Great Britain, and most recently through the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Original Release
09/01/2009
US Release
09/01/2009
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Janine Huard | Self |
| Ewen Cameron | Self |
| Milton Friedman | Self |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Self |
| Salvador Allende | Self |
| Arnold Harberger | Self |
| Donald O. Hebb | Self - Doctor |
| Richard Nixon | Self |
| Edward Korry | Self - Former US Ambassador to Chile |
| Augusto Pinochet | Self |
Directors
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Janine Huard | Self |
| Ewen Cameron | Self |
| Milton Friedman | Self |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Self |
| Salvador Allende | Self |
| Arnold Harberger | Self |
| Donald O. Hebb | Self - Doctor |
| Richard Nixon | Self |
| Edward Korry | Self - Former US Ambassador to Chile |
| Augusto Pinochet | Self |
| Margaret Thatcher | Self / Self (archive footage) |
| Orlando Letelier | Self |
| Michael Townley | Self |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | Self |
| Joseph Blair | Self - Major: School of the Americas 1986-89 |
| Elisa Tokar | Self - Ex-Detainee ESMA Camp |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Self |
| Ronald Reagan | Self |
| Nigel Lawson | Self |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Alan Hayling | Executive Producer |
| Alex Cooke | Producer |
| Andrew Eaton | Producer |
| Phillip Koch | Producer |
| Avi Lewis | Producer |
| Sally Marschall | Producer |
| Melissa Parmenter | Producer |
| Maria Elena Sanchez | Producer |
Editors
