ENEMY IMAGE
Sunday October 16, 2005 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
repeating Saturday October 22, 2005 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newworld
repeating Sunday August 20, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

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 monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon.

Enemy Image traces the ways us television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms. 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, Mark Daniels demonstrates how television that once revealed the truth is now increasingly used to hide it.