Control Room - Definition and Overview

Control Room is a 2004 documentary film about Al Jazeera and 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 (owned by 2929 Entertainment).

People featured in the film include Lieutenant Joshua Rushing, a press officer from US Central Command, David Shuster, an NBC correspondent, and Tom Mintier, a CNN correspondent. Al Jazeera was represented by Samir Khader, a senior producer, Hassan Ibrahim, a Sudanese journalist who attended American universities and headed the BBC Arab News Service before joining Al Jazeera, and Deema Khatib, a Syrian journalist and a producer at Al Jazeera. Samir Khader later became the editor of al-Jazeera [1] (http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=603895).

External links

• Control Room official website (http://www.controlroommovie.com)
• Noujaim Films (http://www.noujaimfilms.com/)
• Magnolia Pictures (http://www.magpictures.com/)
• Control Room (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391024/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Metacritic - Control Room (http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/controlroom/) review collection
• Rotten Tomatoes - Control Room (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/control_room/) review collection
• LookSmart - Control Room (http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317828/us317854/us156580/us219755/us575124/us10223718/) directory category
• Open Directory Project - Control Room (http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Titles/C/Control_Room/) directory category

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