← Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

Limited Series

5 episode 2021-09-01
  1. E1 · The System Was Blinking Red

    E1 · The System Was Blinking Red

    53 mnt

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

    2021-09-01

  2. E2 · A Place of Danger

    E2 · A Place of Danger

    53 mnt

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

    2021-09-01

  3. E3 · The Dark Side

    E3 · The Dark Side

    64 mnt

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

    2021-09-01

  4. E4 · The Good War

    E4 · The Good War

    63 mnt

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

    2021-09-01

  5. E5 · Graveyard of Empires

    E5 · Graveyard of Empires

    67 mnt

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

    2021-09-01