The Shock Doctrine
MovieTitle | The Shock Doctrine |
User score | 7.4 |
Release date | Sep 30, 2007 |
Genre | Documentary, Animation |
Director | Jonás Cuarón |
Production country | United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada |
Production companies | Esperanto Filmoj, Klein Lewis Productions, Penguin Books, Renegade Films |
Run time | 6 min. |
Drawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today.