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Year: 2009
Director: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom

Cast:

Kieran O'Brien (Narrator), Naomi Klein (Herself), Donald O. Hebb (Himself - Doctor (as Donald Hebb)), Janine Huard (Herself), Milton Friedman (Himself), Edward M. Korry (Himself - Former US Ambassador to Chile (as Edward Korry)), Joseph Blair (Himself - Major: School of the Americas 1986-89), Elisa Tokar (Herself), Harlan Ulman (Himself), Paul Bremer (Himself), Salvador Allende (Himself (archive footage)), George W. Bush (Himself (archive footage)), Dwight D. Eisenhower (Himself (archive footage)), Mikhail Gorbachev (Himself (archive footage)), Al Gore (Himself (archive footage)), Alan Greenspan (Himself (archive footage)), Nigel Lawson (Himself (archive footage)), Orlando Letelier (Himself (archive footage)), Richard Nixon (Himself (archive footage)), Augusto Pinochet (Himself (archive footage))

Storyline:

Based on the best-selling book by Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine seeks to explain the rise of disaster capitalism: the exploitation of moments of crisis in vulnerable countries by governments and big business. 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. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]

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