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CONTROL ROOM (2004)

Verenigde Staten
Documentaire
84 minuten

geregisseerd door Jehane Noujaim
met Hassan Ibrahim, Samir Khader en Deema Khatib

Deze documentaire geeft een beeld van de internationale perceptie van de oorlog in Irak, in tegenstelling tot die in de Verenigde Staten. Er wordt gefocust op Al-Jazeera, de meest populaire nieuwszender in de Arabische wereld. De zender wordt door het Pentagon beschuldigd van het brengen van nieuws in een te gekleurd (lees: pro-Irakees) perspectief, en wekt hun woede door het uitzenden van beelden van burgerslachtoffers en overleden Amerikaanse soldaten.

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Studio: Palisades Tartan

DVD Release Date: October 25, 2004


Director: Jehane Noujaim


Description
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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.


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 3.98 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 87 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): Arabic DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English



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