Everyone should watch this film (available as 3 1 hour chapters over at archive.org).
"This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today." - Internet Archive Summary
I thought of those films as I watched Fox News for a while tonight.
Man I love the BBC