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Control Room
Directed by
Jehane Noujaim
2004
84m
Not Rated
Documentary
,
War
7.7
95%
87%
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A documentary on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.
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Cast of Control Room
Samir Khader
Self - Senior Producer, Al Jazeera
Josh Rushing
Self (as Lt. Josh Rushing)
Hassan Ibrahim
Self - Reporter, Al Jazeera
Abdul Jabbar Al-Kubeisi
Self - Iraqi Dissident
Nabeel Khoury
Self - Spokesman, US State Department
David Shuster
Self - Correspondent, MSNBC
Tom Mintier
Self - Correspondent, CNN
Muafak Tawfik
Self - Translator, Al Jazeera
Omar Al-Issawi
Self - Correspondent, Al Jazeera
Jihad Ali Ballout
Self - Media Relations, Al Jazeera
George W. Bush
Self - US President (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld
Self - US Secretary of Defense (archive footage)
Control Room Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Noujaim's eye-opening documentary consistently asks the tough questions, while giving its subjects (and, implicitly, the audience) a remarkable forum for discussion.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Modest in scope and not as well structured as it could have been, Control Room may not seem all that compelling 10 years down the road. But right now, at this very moment, it is essential, imperative viewing.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It does a good job of showing just how much media manipulation is taken for granted by those who have the job of massaging the facts and the ones who simply lie back and enjoy it.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The optimistic viewer will see in all this blunt and messy contrariness the emergence of the first free press in the Arab world.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The value in Control Room is simply that it shows what America never got to see while also serving as a reminder that nobody serves up the real truth, everybody just serves up their truth.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A glimpse of a world where everything is reversed, where our most cherished preconceptions are called into question and reality proves to be a more complex business than we imagined.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Without being didactic, the documentary raises important issues about bias and objectivity.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Control Room should be required viewing for anyone within reach of a TV signal.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Fascinating documentary for mature older teens+.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Americans watch CNN. The Arab world watches Al-Jazeera. This movie watches both and helps us understand how no attempt or pretense of objectivity can ever escape bias.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
If there are indeed two sides to every story, Control Room offers an unparalleled opportunity to observe the other side and then make up our own minds.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Given that most Americans know the network only by reputation, or via Donald Rumsfeld's public denunciations of it, a little more objective information would not have gone amiss.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Enlightening, if structurally relaxed documentary.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
This engrossing portrait of competing notions of truth is at once a thrilling real-time chronicle of the birth of a free press and a sophisticated philosophical treatise on the nature of objective reality.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
... a raw, unblinking examination of how the first draft of history is revised by those who filter it.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
For those who are interested in wartime truth, this film reminds us that the casualty has been somewhat reduced.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A must-see movie.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This modest yet necessary documentary digs into the tussle between bias and balance in modern journalism and sends you out debating where one side's reporting becomes the other side's distortion.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
It's an intriguing, entertaining glimpse at the inner workings of the most-watched television channel in the world.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An enlightening documentary about how the U.S. networks and the Arab satellite news channel Al Jazeera covered the early days of the war in Iraq.
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