Hijacking Catastrophe (2004)

Original title

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Directed by

Jeremy Earp, Sut Jhally

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the idea that the 9/11 attacks were used to justify expanding American military power. It looks at a pre-existing plan by influential figures to reshape U.S. foreign policy under the war on terror.

analyticalcriticalsoberinformativequestioningsuspensefulpoliticalserious

What happens

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire is a 2004 documentary film narrated by Julian Bond and directed by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally. It examines the possibility that neoconservatives used the September 11 attacks to usher in a new doctrine of expanding American power through military force under the guise of a "war on terror" and that the doctrine, known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), had been laid out prior to 9/11 by its authors, which include Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and Dan Quayle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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