Control Room

Is America radicalizing or stabilizing the Arab world? Award-winning filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) provides a balanced view of Al-Jazeera's presentation of the second Iraq war, and in so doing calls into question many of the prevailing images and positions offered up by the U.S. news media. The film's view inside Al-Jazeera-a network branded "Osama bin Laden's mouthpiece" and subject of intense criticism from U.S. administration officials-suggests that its views on news reportage might actually be more in tune with democratic ideals than those of its Western counterparts.

"Whatever your opinions about the war, the conduct of the journalists who covered it and the role of Al Jazeera in that coverage, you are likely to emerge from CONTROL ROOM touched, exhilarated and a little off-balance, with your certainties scrambled and your assumptions shaken." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times.