An espionage tale from inside the CIA's long conflict against Al Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.
Direction
Barker crafts thriller pacing from deposition transcripts.
Editing
Classified docs and witness accounts cut like Bourne montages.
Production
Unprecedented CIA access that shouldn't exist but does.
Director
Greg Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film reveals CIA analysts successfully predicted 9/11 months earlier; their warnings were buried in bureaucratic noise.
Several interview subjects were still active CIA when filmed; their identities remain classified, faces sometimes obscured.
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