An Interview with Sir David Frost
Sir David Frost, Al Jazeera International
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The Iraqi Insurgency from a perspective we rarely get.
An interview with Steve Connors & Molly Bingham
KUSP Santa Cruz, Talk of the Bay with Robert Pollie
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Iraq's Insurgents are Ordinary People
Emily Wilson, Alternet
"A new film delves inside Iraqis' reasons for getting involved in the violent resistance movement."
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'Meeting Resistance' hears out Iraqi insurgents
Joe Garfoli, San Francisco Chronicle
"Meeting Resistance" should be required viewing for anyone who thinks pouring more troops into Iraq will tamp down the insurgency - or the spirit that ignited it."
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Who are the Insurgents?
Dahr Jamail, The Progressive
"A groundbreaking film ... While laying bare the motivations of the resistance, the film also does a forceful job of dispelling other myths."
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Meeting Resistance wins "Best Documentary: Courage in Filmmaking" award from the Women's Film Critics Circle
What do Iraqis have to say?
Alan Abbot, LEO Weekly
"Meeting Resistance" is the most important documentary yet made on Iraq."
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Movie Review
Peter Martin, Cinematical
"By sticking rigorously to the idea of presenting the viewpoints of resistance fighters in their own words, and allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions, Meeting Resistance proves to be one of the most eye-opening films on the war."
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Inside the Mind of the Insurgents
An interview with Molly Bingham on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolous"
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Bingham and Connors: Behind Enemy Lines
Behind the scenes with the filmmakers of "Meeting Resistance", Good Morning America
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Meeting Resistance Shows Iraqi Patriotism
Helena Andrews, Politico
"A documentary that will offend many, and hopefully enlighten most."
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A Winning Portrait of Loss in Iraq
Washington Post Movie Review
"A remarkable piece of war reporting."
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Know Thine Enemy
A New York Times Video Op-Ed by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham
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Bring on the War Films! Doc Offers Peek at Iraqi Resistance.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer.
"I think it is time for us to take a film like Meeting Resistance very seriously indeed, and to ponder its message very carefully..."
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Meeting Resistance Movie Review
Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker
"This powerful, fascinating documentary..."
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Why They Fight
Amber Khan, Entertainment Insiders.
"Meeting Resistance" will make you think about our perceptions about Arabs and Muslims, and fundamentally make you ask how different are we from them."
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A Country of Many Wars.
Cynthia Fuchs, Pop Matters
"A film that is both impressionistic and acute, journalism and art."
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Meeting Resistance Movie Review
Louis Proyect
"With an economy of means, this documentary accomplishes what all great art strives for, namely the humanization of its principals."
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Meeting Resistance Movie Review
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
"Meeting Resistance" offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of those who have dedicated themselves to ridding Iraq of its invaders, captured by intrepid reporters who risked their lives at a time when fragile trust was still possible"
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Iraqi Insurgents, in Their Own Words
MATT ZOLLER SEITZ, New York Times
"If nothing else, "Meeting Resistance" should dispel any lingering misconception that the Iraq insurgency is mainly the work of outside agitators."
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Know Thine Enemy
An Op-Ed by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham on abcnews.com
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U.S. troops use new film to scout enemy
By Catherine Mitchell, CNN
"A new documentary that focuses on the motivations of Iraqi insurgents opens later this week in the United States, but reviews are already coming in from a surprising source: U.S. troops serving in Iraq."
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Meeting Resistance Movie Review
Prairie Miller, WBAI
"Sometimes a film serves as a potent weapon of truth, dispelling official lies and giving voice to those whose collective pain has been silenced. Meeting Resistance is that film and more, an act of resistance in its own right to the US war on Iraq."
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Hearing Their Side
ABC World News covers the Meeting Resistance screenings in Baghdad for the US Military.
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An Interview with Molly Bingham & Steve Connors
"The Bob Edwards Show", XM Satellite Radio
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An Interview with Molly Bingham & Steve Connors
"The Story with Dick Gordon", WUNC, NPR
"A month after the fall of Baghdad, photographer Molly Bingham met a friendly middle-aged man who offered to give her a tour of a mosque where she had been taking pictures."
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Iraq fighters film wins Doha award
Al Jazeera, International Edition
"A film about the lives of Iraqi and foreign fighters in northern Baghdad has won first prize at the Al Jazeera International Documentary festival in the Qatari capital Doha."
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Turning the camera on the insurgency
By Frederick Deknatel, The Daily Star
"A 275-seat theater in North Carolina last weekend was the site of the world premiere of a new American and British-directed documentary on the Iraqi insurgency, "Meeting Resistance", that one commentator has already called "the single most astonishing documentary yet on the Iraq war."
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In Focus: Meeting Resistance
"Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria", PBS
In 2003, when insurgents began stepping up their attacks, two journalists abandoned the green zone to find and meet with some of the rebel fighters.
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"Mission Accomplished" in a business suit
By Sidney Blumenthal Salon.com
"This breakthrough film, the single most astonishing documentary yet on the Iraq war, portrays a full range of insurgents, from fighters to spies to imams, speaking in their own voices, explaining their motives and actions, from the first days of the insurgency onward."
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"Documenting Iraq"
By Elizabeth Kramer, LEO Weekly
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"Ordinary Warriors"
By Molly Bingham Vanity Fair July 2004 Issue
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