Meeting Resistance is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about the Iraq War. The film presents the views of eleven Iraqi resistance fighters in the Adhamiyah

Adhamiyah

Al-Adhamiyah , also Azamiya, is a neighborhood and east-central district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq....

 neighborhood of Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

. The film was directed by journalists Molly Bingham

Molly Bingham

-Early life:Molly Bingham grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and went to Brooks school in North Andover, MA, before getting her BA in 1990 at Harvard College in Medieval European History...

 (USA) and Steve Connors (UK).

The interviewees are all anonymous and (with one exception) faceless or out-of-focus on camera. They are presented as nicknames: The Teacher, The Warrior, The Traveler, The Imam, The Wife, The Syrian, The Fugitive, The Local, The Republican Guard, The Lieutenant, and The Professor.

The US military currently organizes showings for its forces in Iraq so they can know who they are fighting.

External links

• Meeting Resistance Official website

Video

• Interview with Bingham and Connors, from Democracy Now! program, October 18, 2007