Just when you thought that documentary filmmakers had said it all about the epic blunder that is the invasion of Iraq, photojournalists-cum-filmmakers Steve Connors and Molly Bingham have added to the slate. In Meeting Resistance, the directors manage to get interviews with 10 members of the so-called Iraq insurgency—people who are committed to getting the American-led military forces out of the country as soon as humanly possible.

It’s a welcome respite from the U.S. media’s coverage of the conflict, which, not shockingly, has been hopelessly one-sided and almost entirely from the Pentagon’s perspective.

We meet these people through the careful veil of anonymity—the filmmakers are well aware that identifying their subjects could land them in piping hot water—and their stories are varied. There are Sunnis and Shiite, some from mixed families; some speak favourably of Saddam Hussein (but most don’t).

Through their tales of terror, we get a much broader sense of where they’re coming from, and it’s actually fairly obvious if you think about it. A bunch of foreigners invade for dubious reasons, blow a bunch of stuff up, kill a load of civilians and depose a leader they helped to empower, and then wonder why they’re not being welcomed as liberators.

Most important is the point that these subjects keep coming back to: their opposition to and hatred of American forces has come as a result of the American presence. In other words, the military intervention is making things much, much worse, not better—effectively supporting journalist Seymour Hersh’s arguments about immediate troop withdrawal.

Ever since the dawn of the DVD format, I had been waiting impatiently for one thing: the release of the ’70s detective series Cannon. Volume 1 has arrived, and it has touched me, deep down inside. As played by William Conrad, this grizzled private investigator struck a blow for overweight people everywhere, proving that they could solve crime every bit as effectively as the skinny.