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  • The Shock Doctrine (2009)
  • Not Rated
    79 min | Documentary, History
The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Not Rated
79 min | Documentary, History

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.
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Writer
Naomi Klein (based on the book by)
Producers
Alex Cooke (produced by) | Andrew Eaton (produced by) | Avi Lewis (produced by)
Editor
Paul Monaghan (edited by)
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Release date
Jan 28, 2010 (United States)

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51 cast members
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Ewen Cameron
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Salvador Allende
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Arnold Harberger
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Donald O. Hebb
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Richard Nixon
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Edward Korry
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Augusto Pinochet
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Margaret Thatcher
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Orlando Letelier
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Michael Townley
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Jorge Rafael Videla
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Joseph Blair
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Elisa Tokar
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Donald Rumsfeld
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Ronald Reagan
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Nigel Lawson
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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George Bush
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Boris Yeltsin
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Yegor Gaydar
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Al Gore
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Gerald Ford
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George W. Bush
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Asif Iqbal
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Ruhel Ahmed
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Shafiq Rasul
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Pervez Musharraf
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Harlan Ullman
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Paul Bremer
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Isabel Letelier
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Alan Greenspan
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Barack Obama
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Saddam Hussein
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Kieran O'Brien
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Dick Cheney
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Bill Clinton
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Walter Cronkite
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Sergio Vieira de Mello
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King Carl XVI Gustaf
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Henry Kissinger
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John Major
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François Mitterrand
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Dan Rather
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Nancy Reagan
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Condoleezza Rice
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Donald Trump
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