Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The journalist and the Jihadi : the murder of Daniel Pearl / Distant Horizon presents ; a Moving Picture Company and a First Take production ; in association with HBO Documentary Films ; written by Amit Roy ; concept and story, Farrukh Dhondy ; produced by Ramesh Sharma, Ahmed A. Jamal, Anant Singh ; directed by Ahmed A. Jamal, Ramesh Sharma.

Edition:

Standard format (4:3).

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Tracks the parallel lives of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearlman and jihadi Omar Sheikh. Both highly educated individuals from privileged backgrounds, one was a humanist who spent most of his career reporting from the Islamic world on a quest to promote cross-cultural understanding; the other was a militant who ultimately chose a deeply violent path. After 9/11, their paths crossed in Pakistan, with tragic consequences"--Container.

Subjects:

Pearl, Daniel, 1963-2002.

Sheikh, Ahmed Omar Saaed, 1973-

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Religious militants -- Pakistan -- Biography.

Journalists -- Crimes against -- United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Jamal, Ahmed A.

Sharma, Ramesh.

Amanpour, Christiane.

Distant Horizon (Firm)

Moving Picture Company Limited.

First Take, Ltd.

HBO Documentary Films.

HBO Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Murder of Daniel Pearl

Notes:

Originally produced in 2006.

Incidental music by David C. Heath ; edited by Tony Appleton ; photographed by Bithin Das [and others].

Narrated by Christiane Amanpour.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 2.0.

In English or dubbed Spanish.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Killing of humanity -- Formative years -- Dividing lines -- Professional jihadi -- Finding love -- Finding hate -- On the trail of Al Qaeda -- Becoming a marked man -- The set-up -- Seeking Gilani -- Nobadmashee -- Held hostage -- Omar Sheikh -- Truth emerges -- Trying to understand.

ISBN:

0783151284

9780783151281

Publisher Number:

94011

Other Number:

74281658

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

697121

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD BIO Pearl