I can think of one scene in which an al Jezera (sp?) guy explains to an idealistic Marine that the occupation of holy cities by American troops flying American flags rubs a lot of Arabs the wrong way, regardless of the Americans' good intentions. You don't really need video to get the point of that scene in the movie. Reading a description of it also does a poor job of conveying the Arab perspective. My guess is that the emotionality of that particular part of the audio/video presentation is what helped convey the truth of how we are perceived abroad. BTW, if you don't care how we are perceived abroad, then you might want to skip the movie.

The reason I rented the movie was a radio interview with the idealistic Marine mentioned in the previous paragraph. He joined the Marines as a teenager and had been in the Marines for about 14 years at the time the movie was made. Part of his duties included communicating with foreign media, particularly al Jezera. He said that he was idealistic about the Iraq war, but has resigned (retired? I'm not sure what the term is) from the Marines and is discouraged about what we are doing over there. He said that when he was put in charge of media relations with al Jezera, all he knew about Islam was what he got from a book call "Islam for Dummies" that he read on the plane over there. He sounds very honest and bright, but it was ridiculous to put him in charge of communicating with the millions of muslim viewers of al Jezera. It shows utter arrogance, stupidity, and disrespect on the part of our leaders.