
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room(2005)
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.


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.

Kieran O'Brien
Narrator (Voice)
Naomi Klein
Self

Milton Friedman
Self

John Major
Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)

Condoleezza Rice
Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan
Self (archive footage)
The Shock Doctrine is a documentary film released in 2009 exploring themes of capitalism, disaster, economics, neoliberalism. Directed by Mat Whitecross, it stars Kieran O'Brien, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman. 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.
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