Control Room

Starring: Lt Josh Rushing, Samir Khader Director: Jehane Noujaim Original UK Premiere: 2004 Dvd Release: 25th October, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Control Room is a 2004 documentary film about Al Jazeera & its relations with the US Central Command, as well as the other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Made by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, the film was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. People featured in the film include Lieutenant Joshua Rushing, a press officer from US Central Command, David Shuster, an NBC correspondent & Tom Mintier, a CNN correspondent. Al Jazeera was represented by Samir Khader, a senior producer, Hassan Ibrahim, a Sudanese journalist who attended American universities & headed the BBC Arab News Service before joining Al Jazeera & Deema Khatib, a Syrian journalist & a producer at Al Jazeera. Samir Khader later became the editor of al-Jazeera  . Control Room   at the Internet Movie Database. Metacritic - Control Room   review collection. Rotten Tomatoes - Control Room   review collection. LookSmart - Control Room   directory category. Open Directory Project - Control Room   directory category.

Startling & powerful, Control Room is a documentary about the Arab television network Al-Jazeeras coverage of the U.S.-led Iraqi war, & conflicts that arose in managed perceptions of truth between that news media outlet & the American military. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim catches the frantic action at Al-Jazeera headquarters as President Bush stipulates his 48-hour, get-out-of-town warning to Saddam Hussein & sons, soon followed by the networks shocking footage of Iraqi civilians terrorized & killed by invading U.S. troops. Al-Jazeeras determination to show images & report details outside the Pentagons carefully controlled information flow draws the wrath of American officials, who accuse it of being an al-Qaida propagandist. 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, & in a way most Americans never hear about.

Samir Khader is the editor of Qatar -based broadcaster Al Jazeera. Although he comes from a Jordanian family, he was born & raised in Iraq. He has degrees in journalism & mathematics from universities in Grenoble & Paris. Later he worked for many years in Jordan as a journalist in television news before joining Al Jazeera. He is well-known for being featured in the documentary film Control Room, when he was a senior producer.   program on the making of the documentary film, September 26, 2004. IPA Voices That Must Be Heard - Inside Al Jazeera. A Conversation with Samir Khader   interview July 1, 2004 issue. In These Times - Inside Al-Jazeera   interview June 18, 2004. Philadelphia City Paper - The View From Here   interview June 18, 2004. LA Weekly - Meeting Al-Jazeera   extensive interview June 4, 2004. Democracy Now! - Bush. Well Stay The Course In Iraq & Send More Troops If Needed   speech & reactions May 25, 2004 with transcript, audio & video Pacifica Radio report & audio  . Democracy Now! - Massacre in Fallujah.

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