An Egyptian-American reporter 'embedded' with Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet, gives a fascinating insight into their coverage of the Iraq War and the personalties who made it, as well as face to face chats with American liasion officers and other members of the press corps. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials, eventually bombed for failing to follow the American line and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as foota find out more...

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Jack Johnson's first break into the public music arena was when his composition 'Rodeo Clowns' was chosen to be G-ILove and Special Sauce's first single off their 1999 album 'Philadelphonic'. He had long been a huge figure in the surfing world, having been born and raised in Hawaii. He fast became a renowned surfer and scored a pro contract with Quiksilver before he had left high school. His implicit creativity led him to study and graduate with a degree in film at Santa Barbara. This then led t find out more...

'Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq' (2000), 'Palestine is still the Issue' (2002), 'Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror' (2003) find out more...

‘Fast, Fair and Balanced'. So the FOX News credo goes. This compelling (if slightly overcooked) documentary about the systematic bias inherent in Murdoch's Neo-Conservative news channel is a must see to anyone with a passing interest in how They take Their news over There. From explaining how FOX's misinformation led to a massive percentage of its viewers believing there was a proven link between Iraq and Al Quaeda to a sensational interview with the belligerent Bill O'Reilly chastising the son find out more...

With over two years of investigation, including the collection of a million and a half words of interview transcript, 'Standard Operating Procedure', from director Errol Morris, is the story behind the infamous photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Not as interesting or revelatory as you might hope, and hamstrung as Morris is by the fact that most of those interviewed aren't that bright or able to verbalise why they did what they did, and are only clear that they were hun find out more...

Starting with the murder in an Afghan prison of an innocent taxi-driver by American soldiers, this brilliant documentary outlines the lines of command from Cheney and Rumsfeld down to those on the front line. We learn about the techniques of torture and who authorised which methods. We hear about some of the history of CIA torture methods, the irrelevance of torture to extracting information and its use as a weapon of terror and political posturing by those in power in Washington. find out more...

From previous wars we've had poetry. books, diaries and consequential films, but never before a movie edited from home video shot by a soldier. US Marine artillery officer Scotti has done something unique in this video diary of the sea voyage out, the base camp in Kuwait, the long drive up to Baghdad, liberation and the consequent collapse into anarchy, and Scotti even manages to keep the camera running during firefights. Clips from the news media are interposed to keep us up to date with the ov find out more...

A helpful little documentary charting the run up to the Iraq war and the controversies that surround it. This film features interviews with some of the major players in the conflict, with additional arguments provided by political scientists and commentators of the day, including George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern. The main focus of the film is on the misuse of information or 'intelligence', as they like to call it, and the apparent inconsistencies in the off find out more...

A rather ridiculous documentary in which Morgan Spurlock visits Egypt, Morocco, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan all in the name of tracking down the great jihadist himself. He concludes that the people in these countries are, just like himself and the audience, ordinary people, not fiendish terrorists. Unfortunately Spurlock is no Michael Moore when it comes to do doing populist liberal politics, enuff said. find out more...