This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.
Direction
Unprecedented dual access to informant AND target simultaneously.
Editing
Builds crushing dread from mundane phone calls and parking lot meetings.
Director
David Felix Sutcliffe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released post-Snowden, it helped fuel mainstream skepticism of counterterrorism narratives—rare for a documentary to impact policy discourse this directly.
The filmmakers discovered Saeed's identity through a chance encounter at a photography exhibit; he'd been their neighbor for years without their knowledge.
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