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Aro Recommended Control Room

 

USA 2004, 84 minutes
Dir. Jehane Noujaim
Rating: [M]
Genres: Documentary / War

Topics: Media, Educational Resource.

 

Aroview: An important documentary that tunes in to the other side of the Iraq War through the "Control Rooms" of both the leading Arab TV station, 'Al Jazeera' and the US military's media outpost known as 'Centcom'.

With propaganda acknowledged as a major weapon in the military arsenal, this looks at the question of the 'objectivity' of journalism, where it discovers two different sides of the truth. Not a hard-nosed doco, but instead even-handed and unsensational, this has the distinction among political docs to have most of its characters (from the media, military and from both sides of the conflict alike) presented as rational and sympathetic.

NZ International Film Festival 2004

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • deleted scenes
  • English subtitles for the hearing impaired
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 1.85:1
 

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