Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (2013)

Original title

Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden

Directed by

Greg Barker

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows CIA analysts and operatives over more than a decade as they work to understand and track Osama bin Laden. It shows the painstaking intelligence work and features archival footage from the long search.

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What happens

Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden is a 2013 documentary film directed by Greg Barker that explores the Central Intelligence Agency's investigation of Osama bin Laden, starting from 1995 until his death in 2011. It premiered on HBO on May 1, 2013, two years after the mission that killed bin Laden. The documentary features narratives by many of the CIA analysts and operatives who worked over a decade to understand and track bin Laden, and includes archival film footage from across Washington, D.C., Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. It also features extensive and rarely seen footage of Al-Qaeda training and propaganda videos, including video suicide notes from various terrorists who later worked as suicide bombers. On release, the documentary was noted as a "less Hollywood-ized version" of the film Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and appreciated for showcasing "the nitty-gritty" of the decade-long search for bin Laden and the CIA analysts' jobs. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special in 2013. It was acknowledged for putting "a human face on the secret world of intelligence gathering." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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