Dirty Wars, a new film from director Rick Rowley and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, is going to make your jaw drop. The documentary begins in Afghanistan with Scahill speaking to a man who claims to have witnessed US soldiers raid a house, murder two pregnant women and an Afghan police commander before trying to conceal their crime by digging their bullets out of the bodies of their victims.While trying to uncover the reasoning behind the raid, Scahill comes across an organisation called JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) – the group that planned the Navy Seal raid to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. From there, he begins to learn about the multiple covert operations the American military carry out all over the world, killing men, women and children – some of them American citizens – all in the name of the War on Terror, despite the fact the victims could never be defined as terrorists.These missions give soldiers the right to operate beyond the law, turning the Middle East into their own personal Wild West without any fear of repercussion for their actions. The documentary is brilliant and daring, and it's hard to believe that Rowley and Scahill have somehow managed to release it without falling victim to a covert operation themselves.On Saturday, December the 7th we're hosting a screening of Dirty Wars at the Hackney Picturehouse, followed by a panel discussion hosted by VICE Head of Video Al Brown and featuring Rick Rowley, investigative journalist John Davison and artist James Bridle. You can and definitely should buy tickets to that here on the Picturehouse website.Watch our interview with Jeremy Scahill here.