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Control Room

Thought-provoking documentary about the way the media is covering the war in Iraq, concentrating on the work done by the Arab network 

.Magnolia Pictures - Feature Film

When President George Bush declared war on Saddam Hussein and his regime, 40 million Arab viewers were watching Al Jazeera, the most popular news outlet in the Middle East. This incredibly important documentary directed by Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com), an Egyptian-American, will be the first time many in the West have had a chance to take a look behind-the-scenes and hear the philosophy of the journalists working for this operation. The network has been labeled by many in the West as "Osama Bin Laden's mouthpiece" while in some Arab countries, it has been banned for its free-form journalistic investigations.

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