The Shock Doctrine

Based on the best selling book of the same name by Naomi Klein (who provides narration), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE uses a combination of archive footage and animation to investigate the author's notion of "disaster capitalism". Starting in 1951 with the development of shock therapy – which Klein uses as a metaphor for the larger shocks that affect society – the film explores the proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. Richard Nixon, the CIA, Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman and Boris Yeltsin are just a few of the subjects that find themselves on Klein's operating table.

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