Control Room (2004)
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
- Released
- 2004-01-22
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jehane Noujaim
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 62 votes
Cast
- Samir Khader as Self - Senior Producer, Al Jazeera
- Josh Rushing as Self (as Lt. Josh Rushing)
- Hassan Ibrahim as Self - Reporter, Al Jazeera
- Abdul Jabbar Al-Kubeisi as Self - Iraqi Dissident
- Nabeel Khoury as Self - Spokesman, US State Department
- David Shuster as Self - Correspondent, MSNBC
- Tom Mintier as Self - Correspondent, CNN
- Muafak Tawfik as Self - Translator, Al Jazeera
- Omar Al-Issawi as Self - Correspondent, Al Jazeera
- Jihad Ali Ballout as Self - Media Relations, Al Jazeera
- George W. Bush as Self - US President (archive footage)
- Donald Rumsfeld as Self - US Secretary of Defense (archive footage)