Control Room
by Jehane Noujaim
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Actor: David Shuster, Deema Khatib, Josh Rushing, Samir Khader, Tom MintierDirector: Jehane Noujaim
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); Arabic (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Control Room
Movie Review: Highlights the complicity of the western media in war atrocities
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a documentary about the 'controversial' (according to the US government and the western media) Arab news channel Al Jazeera.
It consists of filming a number of the senior Al Jazeera news team and following them around. The filming occurred in the lead up and the beginning of the American lead invasion of Iraq (initially described as it's liberation [forgetting that Saddaam Hussein was put into power in a CIA backed coup] by western governments and the western media).
Of particular interest is the 'sparring' that occurs between one of the more 'rotund' members of the Al Jazeera team and the American army propaganda spokesperson. The Al Jazeera person is able to rebutt most of his arguments with authoratative ease.
We are now in the internet age and control of information is becoming more and more difficult. It is all out there, all one has to do is to find it. This film exposes how uncritical the orthodox western media is about 'government authorized material' during war time. The western media is not as objective as it would like to pretend and is complicit in the lies/ommisions that have/have not been circulated about Iraq.
One interesting fact put to bed by the film :
Remember the day when the American troops entered Baghdad? Remember when the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by the US army witnessed by a few hundred jubilant Iraqis? Remember how the orthodox media spent hours showing us this footage live (and on their highlight reels) and mostly ignoring the demonstrations by tens of thousands of Iraqis. The orthodox media reported this as a factual event, whilst on the internet news media this was reported as a fiction - a staged event done to placate the western voters. This film shows how the orthodox media was wrong and the unorthodox internet media correct.
And their reward for all of this? Being 'accidentally' bombed by the US army.
Shame on the western media and the zombies that follow it uncritically.
Summary of Control Room
Startling and powerful, Control Room is a documentary about the Arab television network Al-Jazeera's coverage of the U.S.-led Iraqi war, and conflicts that arose in managed perceptions of truth between that news media outlet and the American military. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) catches the frantic action at Al-Jazeera headquarters as President Bush stipulates his 48-hour, get-out-of-town warning to Saddam Hussein and sons, soon followed by the network's shocking footage of Iraqi civilians terrorized and killed by invading U.S. troops. Al-Jazeera's determination to show images and report details outside the Pentagon's carefully controlled information flow draws the wrath of American officials, who accuse it of being an al-Qaida propagandist. (The killing of an Al-Jazeera reporter in what appears to be a deliberately targeted air strike is horrifying.) Most fascinating is the way Control Room allows well-meaning, Western-educated, pro-democratic Arabs an opportunity to express views on Iraq as they see it--in an international context, and in a way most Americans never hear about. --Tom KeoghControl room is a rate film that is both timely and timeless: timeless because it ecplores the ancient and complex relationship between the western and Arab worlds timely because it reveals how satellite television has changed the way wars are reported- from news providers driven by the patriotism of their audiences to army information officers driven by military objectives. Control room is a seminal documentary that explores how truth is gathered presented and ultimately created by those who deliver it.System Requirements: Running Time 86 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 031398169321 Manufacturer No: 16932
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