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Movie Reviews of Control Room
Movie Review: A Very Important Perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
As someone who was taken in by the original sell job of the Iraq war, this was difficult to watch and to come to grips with. This engrossing documentary is done in a surprisingly low drama style for such a deep and important subject. The US' media has been woefully inept at doing its job of reporting what has really been going down and instead has become mostly a bunch of talking heads looking out for their careers and ratings. Truth and perspective have been deeply lost. Instead we have newscasters reporting (or ignoring!) the major events of our day with less background, perception and thoroughness than a good sports reported puts into their job. The difference is that sports are all just games for amusement while warfare is deadly serious. We should be paying more attention to the really important things and less to the trivial. Sigh.Movie Review: Documentary about despair in wake of ruthless assault...
Summary: 5 Stars
Definitely one of the best documentaries I have ever seen - though to some it may appear a bit biased towards the Arab world. When you see this against an overwhelming bias of news reporting in America, you may actually be shocked. They have very neatly dissected some of the most memorable moments of the war - most prominent being the bunch of people felling Saddam's statue, which was reported in the American press with fanfare like it was Iowa Jima moment. One of the other striking moments are when one of the principal cast of this documentary states that despite his hatred for what America has done to his Arab world, he would like his children to take up any opportunity to migrate to America. If you can't fight the powerful, join them - for that is the only chance he saw his kids to have a secure and prosperous future.Movie Review: Superb documentary for a misinformed american public
Summary: 5 Stars
The news media in the U.S. is so enthralled with what the U.S. government feeds them that we get precious little true journalism through the mess that is our media outlets.
This documetary provides insite to the workings of Al Jazeera and the bias that the network does have. However, the chilling and ultimately revealing aspect of the film is that Al Jazeera is so much more of a true journalistic news station than what we in the US have seen in recent memory on our televisions.
Al Jazeera has been branded an evil and anti-American organization by the Pentagon and the White House for the simple reason that Al Jazeera doesn't march in lockstep with the propaganda machine that is the current U.S. government.
An excellent film.
Movie Review: US Propaganda and Al Jezerra
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a magnificent DVD. It demonstrates the lies and orchstrations behind the IRAQ "war" through the eyes of one of the most open and democratic news networks in the world today - Al Jezerra. We have been led to beleieve that this network is headed by barbarians - yet in the interviews with the producers and directors of this most popular Arab television network - the viewer can readily see that we have been lied to and that the TRUTH is that the folks who run Al Jezerra network are not only more intelligent than most of us they are objective and tell ALL the story. Rumsfeld interviews and Bush's "Mission Accomplished speech are seen for what they really are - cartoon cutouts of lying war mongers. Anyone who cares about our democracy must see this DVD and Pass it on.Movie Review: An eye-opening step into what was happening during the American invasion of Iraq
Summary: 5 Stars
It's an eye-opening step into what was happening during the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Told from the point of view of Arab television network Al Jazeera, the documentary follows Al Jazeera employees and covers time spent in the US Central Command briefing room in Doha, Qatar. It explores the media's role in modern war.
The only American featured prominently in the documentary - Marine Corps media liaison officer John Rushing - later becomes a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for Al Jazeera International (check out his YouTube channel). After I saw the documentary, I read Mission: Al Jazeera (2007) by Josh Rushing; he resigned from the Marines after he was forbidden to speak about the documentary with the press.