Back to Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
Limited Series
2021
•5 EpisodesEpisodes
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1. The System Was Blinking Red
Sep 1, 2021
53 min
7.3
Interviews and chilling archival recordings chronicle the chaos that unfolded during the 9/11 attacks, whose origins can be traced to the 1980s.
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2. A Place of Danger
Sep 1, 2021
53 min
7.0
Survivors recount the horrors they endured on 9/11. Immediately after the attacks, George W. Bush begins charting America's aggressive military response.
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3. The Dark Side
Sep 1, 2021
64 min
7.2
Learning the hijackers benefitted from gaps in US intelligence, the White House justifies a secret surveillance program and "enhanced interrogation."
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4. The Good War
Sep 1, 2021
63 min
7.3
With no cohesive strategy, the war in Afghanistan squanders early successes and backfires, fueling disillusionment, corruption and a Taliban resurgence.
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5. Graveyard of Empires
Sep 1, 2021
67 min
7.0
After two decades, the US aims to end its longest-ever war, but its withdrawal threatens to plunge Afghanistan back into repressive, bloody violence.