Enemy Image (Images Ennemies) (NR)

synopsis

The invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a sanitized view of combat controlled by the Pentagon. Enemy Image traces the ways U.S. television has covered war, comparing footage of Vietnam, including rarely-seen material shot in North Vietnam, to coverage of Iraq and using extensive interviews with veteran war correspondents and news anchors and demonstrates how television that once revealed the truth is now increasingly used to hide it.