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Examines the lives of the hijackers preceding the September 11th attacks, focusing on their transformation from law-abiding citizens to killers ready to die for their cause.
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This acclaimed British television film demonstrates the fallacy of writing off the 9/11 hijackers as demons or psychopaths. They were, in fact, well-educated young men from middle-class families who somehow became homicidal monsters. Based on two years of research, the film focuses on the transformation of the most secular and most reluctant hijacker, Ziad Jarrah, who was recruited into the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg and became the pilot of United Flight 93. Antonia Bird directs the ensemble cast, building almost unbearable tension as the hijackers slip through checkpoints where they might have been stopped.
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