Name that film!

[sabotabby]

When I was in high school, one of my teachers showed us this amazing documentary about how the media (and specifically CNN) portrayed the first Gulf War. It had a lot of cuts from news graphics to video games. I think it might have been banned in Canada; I remember him saying something about how he'd gotten it elsewhere.

Anyway, I can't remember what it was called. I'd like to watch it again, but now that the Gulf War is ancient history what happened to old people, the internets are of no help to me. Can anyone remember seeing a movie like this?

(I just watched Outfoxed, which is what made me think of it.)

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[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I saw a film like that called Collateral Damage (no relationship to the Arnie movie of the same name). I've never found a version of it any where.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I think this is a reference to it, over here

[sabotabby]

That very well could have been it, and would explain why I could never find it after.

[torontoteacher.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, then there may be a copy in the TDSB media library, or possibly the OISE library....

[peterbilt-47.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I'd love to see a movie that did a good job of taking apart that propaganda machine.

[sabotabby]

This one was really good, if I recall correctly.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Was it Hidden Wars of Desert Storm?

[sabotabby]

That might have been it, but I don't think so. The one I'm thinking of was mostly a focus on the media.

[torontoteacher.livejournal.com]

I remember it.

Can't summon up much more about it, but the comment about video games... and the "video gaming" of the Gulf War was something that I didn't really get in high school (not being a video gamer) and understood more later.

I'll ask around though, in my pool of teacher friends.

Can you go find the high school teacher in question and just ask? That might be easiest.

[sabotabby]

I wasn't a gamer either, but I had an interest in computer graphics, so I found that element of it really fascinating.

Can you go find the high school teacher in question and just ask? That might be easiest.

True, if he remembers what it was called! I should probably contact him anyway.

[joanofarq.livejournal.com]

>>but now that the Gulf War is ancient history what happened to old people<<

Heh.

I was just a coupla years older 'n YOU and I remember sitting on the couch watching Wolf Blitzer and Co. reporting from the hotel in Baghdad w/ the bombs dropping all around them. (Everyone the next day was asking "Do you really believe that guy's real name is WOLF BLITZER?" Nobody had heard of him before.)

But I don't remember the documentary you speak of.

[sabotabby]

If he didn't change his name to Wolf Blitzer, it's an advanced case of nominative determinism.

[dorianeldritch.livejournal.com]

I read about that movie in whole earth review but can't recall the name either-if you find it, please post it;-) I recall being at work, at a fast food restaurant during desert storm and the tv was on while i was sweeping or mopping or something like that, late at night and I was completely weirded out how the news looked like a video game, just little lights in the darkness and explosions-as tho those were not actual buildings with actual people in them.
I complained about it and people told me that it was "cool" we could watch the war live on tv!
I felt like I did after reading "Ender's War".


the weirdest thing was talking to guys I knew who were in the marine corps and army over there and finding out how much it was really like playing video games-how much ammo was wasted by our troops shooting at one another when both camps were just out of range, and realizing when both camps called for ammo-oops we just wasted X-thousands of dollars shooting at each other.
(and they werent worried about shooting their fellow soldiers-they were worried they might accidentally hit a camel and have to pay for it, like shooting a bystander in a video game:-/
Apparently, camels are expensive.