The Shock Doctrine
2012 • 78 minutes
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Directed by award winning filmmakers, Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo), The Shock Doctrine is a powerful and provocative feature documentary based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name.
It is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. It explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed on the wings of democracy.
The film argues that governments the world over exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies -- a practice that Klein calls "disaster capitalism".
The result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. Political leaders have turned to brutality and repression in order to crush protest against their agendas of privatization, deregulation and tax cuts.
Combining archival images, footage from Klein's lectures and interviews with Klein as well as other experts, The Shock Doctrine will change the way you look at our world history. © 2009 SHOCK FILMS LTD
It is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. It explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed on the wings of democracy.
The film argues that governments the world over exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies -- a practice that Klein calls "disaster capitalism".
The result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. Political leaders have turned to brutality and repression in order to crush protest against their agendas of privatization, deregulation and tax cuts.
Combining archival images, footage from Klein's lectures and interviews with Klein as well as other experts, The Shock Doctrine will change the way you look at our world history. © 2009 SHOCK FILMS LTD
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September 20, 2013
Shows libertarians for what they really are: selfish, money obsessed opportunists who will gladly step over the corpses of the poor to get what they want. This documentary is the best advertisement for social democracy I've ever seen as it exposes the libertarian agenda of corporate fascism.