Control Room Movie Review 2004

Shot days prior to the Iraq War, director Noujaim provides a fly on the wall account of the goings on at Al Jazeera, the leading news service for Arab-speaking viewers and also at Centcom, a makeshift media village set up by the U.S. military for the purpose of holding and briefing journalists from around the world. Your certainties will be scrambled and your assumptions shaken, if you think you can believe everything you hear on your news broadcasts. Presented in a surprisingly unbiased manner, provocative critique strongly questions the notion of journalistic objectivity.

Distribution

Artisan Entertainment, 2700 Colorado Ave., Ste. 200, Santa Monica, CA 90404, Phone: (310)449-9200, Fax: (310)255-3730, URL: http://www.artisanent.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 85 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary, War, General, Middle East, News at 11, Front Page

Screenplay

Jehane Noujaim, Julia Bacha

Cinematography

Jehane Noujaim

Director

Jehane Noujaim

Music

Hani Salama, Thomas DeRenzo

Other

Mona Eldaief, Julia Bacha

Producer

Rosadel Varela, Hani Salama, Noujaim Films, Magnolia Pictures