I want to find out the source of the following documentary and how I
could get a copy. The documentary was shown on Belgian TV on or about
January 8, 2003.
The Title is "The Reality of the Gulf War".

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Request for Question Clarification by journalist-ga on 10 Jan 2003 09:16 PST

Was this a documentary in English or in another language?  The reason
I ask is that if it was in English and then translated to another
language, the actual title may differ from yours.  Searching the exact
title you provided "The Reality of the Gulf War" produced no results
for me.  Have you contacted the television station to see who produced
the documentary?

Hello jasnider-ga,

The documentary with the French title "La guerre du Golfe : première
partie", part of a six-part series by Holly Aylett, Christine
Garabedian, and Andrew Solomon, was shown on La chaine histoire (a
French satellite channel) on January 8, 2003 at 12:45.  The
documentary with the French title "Les dessous de la guerre du Golfe",
by Audrey Brohy and Gerard Ungerman (misspelled as "Ungermann" on
arte's site), was shown on arte (another French satellite channel) on
the same day at 20:45.  (The title in German is "Die währe Geschichte
des Golfkrieges"; ARTE broadcasts in both French and German at the
same time.)

Google cache of "Golf" [under heading "Wednesday 8 January 03", at
12:45 and 20:45]
EuroTV
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:XBLuB4VtphQC:www.eurotv.com/golf.htm

"Semaine Du 04-01 au 10-01" [click on "après" to get to the second
page, then click on "20.45 Les dessous de la guerre du Golfe" to get
information about the program]
arte
http://www.arte-tv.com/programme/progsemaine.jsp?semaine=0&horaire=2&zTxt=1&lang=fr#
[Please note that this page is time sensitive and will likely
disappear soon]

I assume from the English title you have given that the second
documentary is the one you want.  The original English title is
"Hidden Wars of Desert Storm".  The documentary, as well as 8 and 1/2
hours of source material, can be purchased on VHS from this site:

"Order"
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
http://www.hiddenwars.com/order.htm

If you are instead interested in the six-part documentary, whose
English title is "Battle for the Gulf", you can contact OR Media to
determine its availability:

"Battle for the Gulf"
OR Media
http://www.ormedia.co.uk/viewarticle.taf?uid=20

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

belgium television [enabling me to find EuroTV site in Google
Directory]
"gulf war" aylett
"battle for the gulf" aylett
"battle for the gulf" "or media"
arte
"gulf war" brohy ungermann
"gulf war" brohy ungerman
"hidden wars" brohy ungerman

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Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 10 Jan 2003 13:16 PST

I forgot to mention that the first page I've cited, as well as the
second, is time sensitive and likely to disappear soon.  You might
want to print out or write the information from these pages before
they are gone.