The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine (2007)

September 30th, 20070h 6min

Documentary, Animation
74%

Overview

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.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Aufenthaltserlaubnis

Aufenthaltserlaubnis


Released on: 1978-01-01
Documentary

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farew...

Youth (Spring)

Youth (Spring)


Released on: 2023-11-10
Documentary

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang...

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors


Released on: 2024-06-11
Documentary

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

Riding the Tornado

Riding the Tornado


Released on: 1986-01-01
Documentary

This documentary focuses on boom-and-bust economic cycles, most notably that of Alberta oil during t...

Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed

Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed


Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary

Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest g...

Police State II: The Take Over

Police State II: The Take Over


Released on: 2000-01-01
Documentary

Alex Jones exposes the problem-reaction-solution paradigm being used to terrorize the American peopl...

More

More


Released on: 1998-09-01
Animation, Science Fiction

A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time h...

China's Secret Monkey Kingdom

China's Secret Monkey Kingdom


Released on: 2021-10-27
Documentary, TV Movie

Rosaura

Rosaura


Released on: 1978-01-01
Animation

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress,...

Draussen bleiben

Draussen bleiben


Released on: 2007-10-24
Documentary

Empire City

Empire City


Released on: 1985-07-01
Documentary, History

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

Mulan

Mulan


Released on: 1998-06-18
Animation, Family, Adventure

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and b...

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama


Released on: 2006-05-01
Documentary

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes


Released on: 1995-05-02
Documentary

The reality of life before, during, and after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement...

Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

Mr. Deng Goes to Washington


Released on: 2015-05-15
Documentary, History

Bodies in Crisis

Bodies in Crisis


Released on: 2025-09-06
Documentary

In the midst of a profound social conflict, the director, a blind activist based in Canada, returns ...

The Flickering Flame

The Flickering Flame


Released on: 1996-12-18
Documentary

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, W...

China Jam

China Jam


Released on: 2014-04-01
Adventure, Documentary

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...

Crocodile in the Yangtze

Crocodile in the Yangtze


Released on: 2012-04-12
Documentary

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jac...

White Walls Say Nothing

White Walls Say Nothing


Released on: 2017-05-02
Documentary

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...