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5 episodes

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror - Limited Series

First aired Sep 1, 2021Season 1

Browse all 5 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The System Was Blinking Red

7.4
Sep 1, 202160 min12 votes

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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Episode 2

A Place of Danger

7.4
Sep 1, 202159 min11 votes

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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Episode 3

The Dark Side

7.3
Sep 1, 202164 min11 votes

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

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Episode 4

The Good War

7.4
Sep 1, 202163 min10 votes

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

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Episode 5

Graveyard of Empires

7.2
Sep 1, 202167 min11 votes

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