The Shock Doctrine (2009)

Directors:

Mat Whitecross
Michael Winterbottom

Writer:

Naomi Klein (book)

Release Date:

3 March 2010 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Economics | Pinochet | Shock Therapy | Talking Heads | Chile

Cast

Ewen Cameron	...	Himself (archive footage) (as Dr. Ewen Cameron)
Janine Huard	...	Herself
Naomi Klein	...	Herself
Franklin D. Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Milton Friedman	...	Himself
Salvador Allende	...	Himself (archive footage)
Donald O. Hebb	...	Himself - Doctor (as Donald Hebb)
Richard Nixon	...	Himself (archive footage)
Edward M. Korry	...	Himself - Former US Ambassador to Chile (as Edward Korry)
Augusto Pinochet	...	Himself (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher	...	Herself (archive footage)
Orlando Letelier	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Townley	...	Himself
Arnold Harberger	...	Himself
Jorge Rafael Videla	...	Himself (archive footage) (as Jorge Videla)
Joseph Blair	...	Himself - Major: School of the Americas 1986-89
Elisa Tokar	...	Herself
Donald Rumsfeld	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Nigel Lawson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Bush	...	Himself
Boris Yeltsin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Yegor Gaydar	...	Himself
Al Gore	...	Himself (archive footage)
Gerald Ford	...	Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Asif Iqbal	...	Himself
Ruhel Ahmed	...	Himself
Shafiq Rasul	...	Himself
Pervez Musharraf	...	Himself (archive footage)
Harlan Ulman	...	Himself
Paul Bremer	...	Himself
Dwight D. Eisenhower	...	Himself (archive footage)
Isabel Letelier	...	Herself
Alan Greenspan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Barack Obama	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bill Clinton	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Cronkite	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nancy Davis	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saddam Hussein	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Kissinger	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Major	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dan Rather	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Condoleezza Rice	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Donald Trump	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Mat Whitecross
Michael Winterbottom

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Naomi Klein		book "The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"

Produced by
Andrew Eaton	....	producer
Phillip Koch	....	line producer: Chicago
Sally Marschall	....	associate producer: Chicago
Melissa Parmenter	....	co-producer

Film Editing by
Paul Monaghan
Mat Whitecross
Michael Winterbottom

Production Management
Tone Davies	....	post-production supervisor

Sound Department
James Dandridge	....	sound maintenance engineer
Naomi Dandridge	....	dubbing assistant
Richard Davey	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gordon Ferris	....	assistant sound editor
Christer Melén	....	additional sound effects editor
Joakim Sundström	....	sound designer
Chris Treble	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Martin Wells	....	colourist

Camera and Electrical Department
Ronald Plante	....	additional photographer
Filippo Viola	....	additional assistant camera

Animation Department
Marc Knapton	....	animator
Gus Martinez	....	animator

Editorial Department
Sinead Cronin	....	on-line editor
Joon Goh	....	first assistant editor
Immanuel von Bennigsen	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Joon Goh	....	researcher: archive footage
Kieran O'Brien	....	narrator

Production Companies

• Renegade Pictures
• Revolution Films

Distributors

• Haut et Court (2010) (France) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Channel 4 (2009) (UK) (TV)
• Dogwoof Pictures (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2010) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Sundance Selects (2010) (USA) (TV) (video-on-demand)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (2010) (Finland) (TV)

Special Effects

• Foreign Office (graphics and animation)

Other Companies

• Technicolor Creative Services  digital negative

Also Known As:

Runtime:

79 min | Germany:85 min (Berlin International Film Festival) (work in progress)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Norway:15

Company:

Renegade Pictures

Quotes:

[first lines]
Naomi Klein:A state of shock is something that happens to us not only when something bad happens. It's what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented.

Movie Connections:

References Fargo (1996)

Soundtrack:

original soundtrack excerpts

Fantastically Educational

The numerous examples provided in this documentary very effectively support the conclusions that Klein is making. This is NOT a conspiracy film by any stretch. This is just a history lesson that has you draw your own conclusions. It makes a major point that should be no surprise to any of us - that "shocks" have been opportunistic to the powers that are determined to promote their success above the general welfare. I appreciate this documentary because it focuses on important truths that too many of us refuse to accept even though the evidences are overwhelming. The documentary might be a little overwhelming for someone who is not familiar with the facts presented since they are presented in such volume so quickly. The documentary could have easily been twice as long, but I suppose that is what the book is for.