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The Looming Tower( 2018)

TV-MAWar & PoliticsDrama
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Overview

While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.

  1. Dan Futterman

    Creator

  2. Lawrence Wright

    Creator

  3. Alex Gibney

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Jeff Daniels

    John O'Neill

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    Tahar Rahim

    Ali Soufan

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    Wrenn Schmidt

    Diane Priest

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    Bill Camp

    Robert Chesney

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    Louis Cancelmi

    Vince Stuart

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    Virginia Kull

    Kathy Shaughnessy

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    Ella Rae Peck

    Heather

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    Sullivan Jones

    Floyd Bennet

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    Michael Stuhlbarg

    Richard Clarke

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    Peter Sarsgaard

    Martin Schmidt

Current Season

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Miniseries

2018 | 10 Episodes

Miniseries of The Looming Tower premiered on Feb 28 2018

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A review by Stephen Campbell

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Written by Stephen Campbell on Sun Oct 06 2019
**_Complex, intelligent, and sobering; superb television_** >أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُواْ يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ >[_Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower._] - _Qur'an_; Surah 4 Āyah 78 >_We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a_ [redacted] _in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" Umar Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists._ >_Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of su_...

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Facts

Status

Ended

Status

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • central intelligence agency (cia)
  • fbi
  • terrorism
  • iraq war
  • 9/11
  • iraq invasion
  • terrorist threat