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Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

Limited Series

2021 · 5 episodes

  1. 1. The System Was Blinking Red

    2021-09-01 · 53m

    Interviews and chilling archival recordings chronicle the chaos that unfolded during the 9/11 attacks, whose origins can be traced to the 1980s.

  2. 2. A Place of Danger

    2021-09-01 · 53m

    Survivors recount the horrors they endured on 9/11. Immediately after the attacks, George W. Bush begins charting America's aggressive military response.

  3. 3. The Dark Side

    2021-09-01 · 64m

    Learning the hijackers benefitted from gaps in US intelligence, the White House justifies a secret surveillance program and "enhanced interrogation."

  4. 4. The Good War

    2021-09-01 · 63m

    With no cohesive strategy, the war in Afghanistan squanders early successes and backfires, fueling disillusionment, corruption and a Taliban resurgence.

  5. 5. Graveyard of Empires

    2021-09-01 · 67m

    After two decades, the US aims to end its longest-ever war, but its withdrawal threatens to plunge Afghanistan back into repressive, bloody violence.

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