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Control Room
Directed by
Jehane Noujaim
Not Rated
2004
86m
Documentary
,
War
7.6
95%
87%
Watch Free
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)
Jehane Noujaim
Director / Writer
Julia Bacha
Writer
Hani Salama
Producer
Control Room Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Fascinating documentary for mature older teens+.
The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
... a raw, unblinking examination of how the first draft of history is revised by those who filter it.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Control Room should be required viewing for anyone within reach of a TV signal.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
For those who are interested in wartime truth, this film reminds us that the casualty has been somewhat reduced.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Without being didactic, the documentary raises important issues about bias and objectivity.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A must-see movie.
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.
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.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
An overdue antidote to the carefully managed news that came out of the U.S. Central Command during the war.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An eye-opening, important film that examines the war in Iraq from both Arab and Western perspectives.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
What Noujaim does show is the side rarely seen over here, and she does so in a way that's brisk, informative and even entertaining in its own wrenching way.
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