The Shock Doctrine

Documentary, Animation | 2007-09-30 | United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada

7.4 / 10

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.